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Tell HN: On Skype for Mac, you now have to do Cmd+Q twice for it to quit.

4 points by mindfulhack ↗ HN
I'm a little paranoid and skeptical of Silicon Valley companies and their dirty tactics to surveil on and profit from our data as much as possible, so I thought I'd report a small observation to HN which is probably overblown and paranoid, but here goes.

Since recent updates of Skype for Mac, doing Cmd+Q in the app does NOT quit it. I have to do it twice. I can repeat this behaviour every time. Can anyone else?

Do you think it's an innocent mistake or a deliberate attempt to make Skype that little bit more persistent on your computer and to get you used to having less control over it?

If it's a new 'feature' (like how with Mac Chrome you can turn on accidental Cmd+Q prevention), I never turned it on.

We know MS ideally wants you keep Skype in your 'taskbar' at all times, thus my paranoid reflection. I can't stand it when companies try to give us less control over our hardware/software, and we know MS is notorious about this with their desktop OS.

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oil25
I don't understand. If you don't trust Skype so much that you're paranoid over the quit behavior, why not use another program to communicate? Not that your paranoia is unjustified - the Snowden leaks made it abundantly clear that service is not secure nor private.
quaquaqua1
Some people simply refuse to use anything else, for example, in a job interview situation. Power dynamics call the shots sometimes!
Nextgrid
Refuse anything else, even the phone?

Which industries are you in? In the software world I never had any issues getting by with the phone and/or FaceTime.

Sevii
Chrome requires you to hold Cmd-Q down before it will close.
decentralizer
Which sometimes lets you close other applications at background accidentally.
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