On Oct 21, 2010, at 21:07:31, Phoenix wrote:
> That way, Growl would see that it had been previously uninstalled and a 
> re-install would prompt Growl to explicitly prompt the user, …

Dropbox doesn't install the latest version (0.7.110 installs 1.2), so it 
wouldn't install any hypothetical future version that checked for this file.

> … Of course, such applications like Dropbox can erase that file again, but 
> then they really preying for trouble.

Applications such as Dropbox already abuse the user's trust when they install 
software without the user's permission. Making it more difficult doesn't change 
the morality of it.

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