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Glass is half empty, I see. How about GSB stopped 16% of phishing sites? that's still huge.
by notepad0x90 7mo ago
Glass is half empty, I see.
How about GSB stopped 16% of phishing sites? that's still huge.
- debo_ 7mo agoI guess the glass is 16% full.
- notepad0x90 7mo agoStop locking your door if someone can just break through the window then. I think you and the author are conflating 16% effective with 84% of sites on GSB are false positives, that's not what that stat means.
- debo_ 7mo agoI don't know what part of my comment led you to believe I was thinking.
- loloquwowndueo 7mo agoWould you use anything that was only 16% effective for its claimed purpose? “Tylenol stops headaches in 16% of people” - it’s huge, right? That’s millions of people we’re talking about. Would you use it?
- mock-possum 7mo agoIdk why not? What’re the side effects?
- HeatrayEnjoyer 7mo agoCountless medications have <16% efficacy rate.
- NekkoDroid 7mo agoIf the other options would just straight up kill innocent bystanders (e.g. false positives for legit shops) I think that is a tradeoff I am willing to make.
- asadotzler 7mo ago99% of users don't even know they're being protected. There's no promise except "we work to make browsing safer" and cutting even 5% of malicious sites from a user's experience is an unmitigated win for that user at the low false positive rate Safe Browsing offers.
- notepad0x90 7mo agothat doesn't make a difference, they're still being protected. 99% of users don't know that defender saved their lives multiple times from being destroyed either. Same with spam filters, app store rejections,etc.. I don't get why there is such a lack of critical thinking on this topic here.
- notepad0x90 7mo agoYou don't have to use tylenol, just like GSB. Since we're picking random analogies, I think bankruptcy and or violent crime are close to what this is stopping. I'd say if it stops just one person from losing their life's savings, suffering physical harm, or psychological trauma, yeah, your blog being on GSB is worth it.