alt Hacker NewsWould 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?
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NekkoDroid • yesterday at 6:00 PM
If 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.
HeatrayEnjoyer • yesterday at 5:43 PM
Countless medications have <16% efficacy rate.
mock-possum • yesterday at 4:23 PM
Idk why not? What’re the side effects?
99% 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.