A new regime of repeating macOS Sequoia permission prompts have been described as “a subscription you didn’t buy and can’t cancel.”
An Apple ad once made fun of the endless stream of permission requests in Windows Vista, but some are suggesting that Sequoia is now every bit as bad …
The Windows Vista problem
Windows Vista launched in 2007, and Microsoft used the new release to try to solve one of its biggest security headaches.
Windows can be run in either user or administrator mode, with the idea that user mode would be the norm, so that people were protected against security issues. However, user mode in earlier generations had so few permissions that many apps required people to use admin mode, which then defeated the purpose.
In an attempt to solve this, Vista user mode would prompt people when an app needed additional permissions. The problem, however, is that users were bombarded by endless requests. An Apple ad poked fun at this…
Source 9to5mac.com