Sympathy for the devil, people keep using Google's browser because the safe search guards catch more bad actors than they false positive good actors.
Sympathy for the devil, people keep using Google's browser because the safe search guards catch more bad actors than they false positive good actors.
> the safe search guards catch more bad actors than they false positive good actors.
Well, if the legal system used the same "Guilty until proven innocent" model, we would definitely "catch more bad actors than false positive good actors".
That's a tricky one, isn't it.
You do not want malware protection to be running at the speed of the legal system.
A better analogy, unfortunately for all the reasons it's unfortunate, is police: acting on the partial knowledge in the field to try to make the not-worst decision.
> people keep using Google's browser because the safe search guards catch more bad actors than they false positive good actors.
This is the first thing i disable in Chrome, Firefox and Edge. The only safe thing they do is safely sending all my browsing history to Google or Microsoft.
That's a reasonable thing for you to do (especially if you have some other signal source you use for malware protection), but HN readers are rarely representative of average users.
This feature is there for my mother-in-law, who never saw a popup ad she didn't like. You might think I'm kidding; I am not. I periodically had to go into her Android device and dump twenty apps she had manually installed from the Play Store because they were in a ring of promoting each other.
This is not an honest argument. Most people don't even know this web censorship mechanism exists until they see something (usually legit) blocked.
Do they then switch browsers in response?