Jason Snell at Six Colors: Apple’s permissions features are out of balance:

In an attempt to protect Mac users from getting themselves into trouble, Apple introduced numerous permissions pop-ups into macOS Catalina. In the years since, the company has accelerated its approach, adding ever more situations where users must grant specific permission. Often multiple times, in multiple places. (It can be magnified by migrating to a new Mac and getting those requests all at once.)

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Now comes the news that things may be getting worse, not better. 9to5Mac reports that macOS Sequoia beta has introduced a new prompt that doesn’t allow a user to permanently grant permission, but requires an occasional re-authorization.

Acorn "records the screen" to sample pixels in other apps when you use the color loupe. This is great if you see a color in a Safari window that you'd like to grab, even if you do have to deal with a scary warning (once) from MacOS. At least it was only once, until now.

I've been running the Sequoia betas for a while now and I thought it was a bug that I was having to open up System Settings every other day to grant this permission yet again. Apparently this is as designed (and since I rebuild Acorn from source multiple times a day it seems to trigger something in MacOS Sequoia that says I need to give permission yet again).

John Gruber at Daring Fireball:

I think it shows just how much care and thoughtfulness went into turning up the dial on these nags that the button label incorrectly capitalizes the “to” in “Continue To Allow”. You can say, well, that’s a little thing. But that’s exactly the sort of little thing that almost never shipped from Apple, even in beta, until the last few years.

This is sad, but not unsurprising given the trajectory of things lately. And if you look closely, you can still see bits of yellow feather intermixed with the rest of the decomposing body.