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Seems like it should only need to do this once. I get this with almost every Slack and VSCode update. The correct solution for me is to quit Slack.app and let my company's management software do the update for me.


Chances are they have some kind of management software like SentinelOne that is preventing Slack from doing this (or storing the permission to do so), so it just asks over and over. Which is arguably worse.


I don't use slack except in the browser. I never get a prompt for VSCode. It must be one of your extensions.


I've got them both installed through a corp-managed "software center". Don't have any exciting extensions that I've installed.


Maybe it's smart enough to require re-authorization when the binary changes?


Why would the helper binary change that much? A setuid-ish binary should be ultra simple and not constantly changing I'd assume.


...and it should be able to replace itself.




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