I'm of the opinion that if your program is storing gigabytes of data in the appdata folders and it's not a clearable cache you should be disciplined harshly
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which is because generally, programs need admin rights to install, so they can create folders in Program Files and provision permissions. If it's non-user-specific, why is it in appdata?
don't get me STARTED on installers that circumvent admin rights by putting it all in appdata...
but by putting it all in app data it stops the program from requiring admin rights, meaning that if anything nefarious happens to it, it won’t automatically have admin rights to trash your system with
I think this goes back to when people had the family computer and you had admin and standard users so children didn’t go about installing viruses but might want a game or something to play. Not all that useful these days :p
to be fair older programs are off the hook on this one, but if your program has been made in the last 20 years with explicit support for Vista and above, you're a big poopy for doing this 💔
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don't get me STARTED on installers that circumvent admin rights by putting it all in appdata...
we need a good form of containers for Windows, like UWP but not complete shit
I’ve seen some apps use app data for user-specific installs and program files for all users
For things that don’t need admin rights like discord then I can see that being helpful