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Judging. And it's impossible to build certain feature without judging. A lot of people here probably don't remember what email was like in the 90s/00s, before
by ethbr0 5y ago
Judging. And it's impossible to build certain feature without judging.
A lot of people here probably don't remember what email was like in the 90s/00s, before it got bad enough that Gmail's killer feature was (what we'd now call) cloud-enabled spam filtering.
The distinction between judgement and censorship is the amount of user control. (1) Does the user know it happened? (2) Can the user override the decision?
- hulitu 5y ago1) no 2) no. So it seems a good idea to disable defender.
- colejohnson66 5y agoNot true. Defender alerts you when it quarantines a virus or whatever. And if you know what buttons to push, you can tell it to remove it from quarantine. You can also tell it to ignore folders if you so desire.
- ethbr0 5y agoNot in this instance. Program was automatically uninstalled. I didn't have time to poke through it, but options appear limited to whitelisting the app going forward, and then reinstalling yourself.
- Sebb767 5y agoGiven that Defender (apparently) directly deletes the files in question without asking, it seems you agree with the grandparent that it is, in fact, censorship.