I haven't found a good way to stop Apple from deleting this app yet.
Apple is now officially worse than Microsoft with their big brother mafia virus style tactics.
I saved the app as a zip, and have to constantly unzip and fix it every time Apple deletes or corrupts the application.
This is the very definition of a virus. It's destructive data loss.
I've tried permissions, locking, chflags, everything I can think of.
Has anyone had any luck on how to stop it from being erased by Apple?
Maybe adding it to SIP as a protected OS file somehow?
I've even tried to modify the app bundle, changing the name, version, and other info, that should screw up its checksum, and somehow, Apple still finds and deletes it, no matter the name, location, flags, permissions, owner, size, or anything else I have tried.
Has anyone else had any luck to stop it from being destroyed?
Yeah, I could unzip it on the fly, or put it in a read-only DMG, write a script to mount, the image, and open the app, but seriously Apple? wtf?
The amount of effort Apple has put into finding deleting this app, they could have just maintained it. There's probably more to it than just Apple Silicone conversion, because it works fine as-is. They probably didn't want to pay someone a license fee.
Even if they don't want to maintain it, there's no reason to prevent us from running it as long as it works, unless there's something more sinister going on.
I don't like the fact that they can just delete our files without permission whenever they want. Again, this is a virus tactic. Did Bill Gates buy Apple? smh...
There's got to be a way to protect it, like a ROM. Apple does it with protected OS files, and we can't even modify them as root.
I may end up just adding to my nightly update script to just unzip they backup, but it's possible with timing, it could still get nailed by Apple, before my script restores it.
It's more of a learning challenge at this point...
Apple is now officially worse than Microsoft with their big brother mafia virus style tactics.
I saved the app as a zip, and have to constantly unzip and fix it every time Apple deletes or corrupts the application.
This is the very definition of a virus. It's destructive data loss.
I've tried permissions, locking, chflags, everything I can think of.
Has anyone had any luck on how to stop it from being erased by Apple?
Maybe adding it to SIP as a protected OS file somehow?
I've even tried to modify the app bundle, changing the name, version, and other info, that should screw up its checksum, and somehow, Apple still finds and deletes it, no matter the name, location, flags, permissions, owner, size, or anything else I have tried.
Has anyone else had any luck to stop it from being destroyed?
Yeah, I could unzip it on the fly, or put it in a read-only DMG, write a script to mount, the image, and open the app, but seriously Apple? wtf?
The amount of effort Apple has put into finding deleting this app, they could have just maintained it. There's probably more to it than just Apple Silicone conversion, because it works fine as-is. They probably didn't want to pay someone a license fee.
Even if they don't want to maintain it, there's no reason to prevent us from running it as long as it works, unless there's something more sinister going on.
I don't like the fact that they can just delete our files without permission whenever they want. Again, this is a virus tactic. Did Bill Gates buy Apple? smh...
There's got to be a way to protect it, like a ROM. Apple does it with protected OS files, and we can't even modify them as root.
I may end up just adding to my nightly update script to just unzip they backup, but it's possible with timing, it could still get nailed by Apple, before my script restores it.
It's more of a learning challenge at this point...
Statistics: Posted by fleonard4 — Fri Aug 23, 2024 6:30 am