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That's fair, but completely besides the point of the OP. If the complaint is "because it doesn't work well enough", the proper solution is to just disable it,

• eitland 6y ago
  > If the complaint is "because it doesn't work well enough", the proper solution is to just disable it, which is of course an option. Crying "foul!", however, is neither constructive nor helpful in way. Are you sure you meant exactly what you wrote? I mean: The correct thing to do if you have a smoke detector that gives false positives isn't to throw out smoke detectors but to complain to the place that sold it and get a new one that works.
  • qayxc 6y ago
    I am sure I mean what I wrote. If someone thinks SmartScreen isn't a good solution, they should disable it. Using a different solution is independent of that. To use your smoke detector analogy: if a smoke detector goes off twice a day and once in the middle of the night every other night, you sure as heck DO throw it out. If only because every false alarm desensitises you to actual alarms and makes your default reaction to just remove the batteries of that thing. The real issue is that the false alarms don't necessarily come from a faulty detector, but are due to the fact that someone keeps smoking in the house or keeps burning their food all the time and then keeps telling everyone that smoking doesn't affect them negatively, because they only smoke one cigarette every other day so smoking is actually safe for everyone and that the detector is to blame for all the false alarms.