well we’ll get downvoted into oblivion but i agree.

only when dealing with azure for work. otherwise bash/python work just fine and have for me for the last 30 odd years.

I think it’s probably less about restricting what you send and more about either making you use their cloud services so the data can be mined or a lack of desire to provide support for issues with local transfer.

either way, I believe it’s intentional as well.