alt Hacker NewsI wish we had this in the operating system. It would solve an immense number of risks such as data deletion from bugs and even ransomware.
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asdfsa32 • yesterday at 1:58 PM
MacOS has this and what happens is that you get into the habit of just clicking through it. It won't help with ransomware, only backups would.
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Which operating system do you mean? Flatpak has this already, Android enforces this kind of API for shared files, Windows UWP has pretty much the exact same API (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.storage.pi...).
App developers will often choose not to sandbox their applications because it's a lot easier (and sometimes faster) do to all file management yourself, but the APIs are there and ready to be used.