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What's wrong with auto-updates?

There is everything wrong with autoupdate, basically you are giving whoever controls the updates full control over your software and data, with autoupdates it is possible to:

• Insert backdoors, spyware and malware.
• Add unnecessary features.
• Remove features.
• Target a single user with shit like A/B testing, treating people like guinea pigs.
• Make unwanted changes, like the dreaded UI changes.
• Locking down content behind paywalls
• Whatever else malicious developers want to do with you.

Autoupdate has always been used for bad, its purpose was always to take control away from the user, updating should ALWAYS be a choice.

Source:

Nanon

(MozArchive)

I hope he doesn't mind me reposting this. And let me add modifying user settings to the list of auto-update issues - something which Firefox has done many times, for example.