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Smart screen and other measures on windows are so useless that they just encourage consumers to engage in bad security practices.

I downloaded steam from the steam page, windows blocked it. I downloaded Chrome, windows blocked it. What's even the fucking point?




> What's even the fucking point?

To make you use Microsoft Store.




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