this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
137 points (93.1% liked)

Technology

60084 readers
2874 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I really don’t know how to feel about it

The people it’s intended to protect will just click “yes” to anything in my experience

I don’t have a statistical analysis of results over a normal distribution of the world population, though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like Epic wouldn't be so strident about it without proof that it negatively affecting install rate.

But maybe the perception that it affects the rate is sufficient.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I think it affects install rate by design, which is bad for Epic in this case but good for security in most