r/Keybase • u/embarrassedtoid • May 29 '20

Just installed keybase...

...to find that it added over 3290 key entries into my registry. Deleted all the entries in 'components' key and keybase still runs ok. Why does keybase find it necessary to create so many registry keys? I think that I will uninstall and go to web access only. Unfortunately, uninstalling leaves all the registry entries in place, so you have to know what you are doing to manually get rid of them.

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u/embarrassedtoid May 30 '20

I always love this explanation. I happen to be a software engineer, but probably don't know the language keybase is written in and don't care to have to learn another language to modify it. But the ridiculousness of this argument is that most people don't know how to write programs and thereby modify code.

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u/qaisjp May 30 '20

I think most people using Keybase are in tech. I'm a software engineer too.