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> where macOS automatically reads the text in images to make it selectable (as if anyone asked for that)

I saw a lot of excited people on Twitter when that feature was first enabled. For example for students, having images of books or posters be automatically copyable and searchable is very useful.

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That's fine, so just make it a right-click menu service item versus automatically enabling it globally for every image across the entire OS by default for everyone. I know lots of security folks who find it useful storing malware code as an image for reference since that was relatively safe to keep around since it couldn't be accidentally executed and/or being flagged by anti-virus apps. Suddenly macOS was reading that code and introducing a whole new avenue for security vulnerabilities.