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It's a dumb comment. There was a ton of malware being distributed as add-ons that came packaged with other installers. This solved that issue.
by Jonnax 7y ago
It's a dumb comment.
There was a ton of malware being distributed as add-ons that came packaged with other installers.
This solved that issue.
- antt 7y agoBurning down London stopped the plague too.
- floatingatoll 7y agoThe Great Fire burned central London long after the plague had moved to the poorer outer areas of the city, where it continued to die out gradually unaffected by the fires elsewhere.
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- shmel 7y agoI don't get why this flag was disabled on Linux though. Nobody uses "installers" on Linux, come on. I am not sure if malware of this kind even exists on Linux.
- overgard 7y agoThe cost of their “solution” seems pretty high in retrospect. This isnt a binary proposition, they could have solved that issue while respecting user choices, if it had been a priority. The solution they chose inherently was flawed. Hopefully this gives other providers pause before they build similar things.