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If it's an app downloaded directly from a developer you trust, sure.
If it's some rando app from an aggregator website, absolutely not.
If it's some rando app from an aggregator website, absolutely not.
How does one know if a developer is trustworthy?!!
Specifically, is Howard Knight trustworthy? The image shown here https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/751792 says he's not an "identified developer".
How do you know if a developer is trustworthy? Well, this is where common sense kicks in. Here's the product page for Mints: https://eclecticlight.co/mints-a-multifunction-utility/
Howard Oakley has tons of utilities on his blog and he updates it multiple times per month with new articles and frequently responds to comments on his posts. That's a lot of effort for someone if they were offering up untrustworthy software.
It's almost as if Dr Oakley is reading this thread 🤔 - look at what he has said today:-
Last Week on My Mac: Does security impair usability?
Launching an app for the first time used be simple. Now we have the SSV, launch constraints and app translocation to contend with.
eclecticlight.co
"macOS is currently in need of substantial improvement to its usability, and a return to simple, consistent behaviours that conform to explicit and generally understood rules. That need not involve abandoning the great achievements of the SSV, Gatekeeper, or launch constraints, but improvements in their presentation using human factors."