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Who cares? Flagging sites probably provides an overall benefit for people to be careful on sites where viruses have been detected. People pirating books will still download them ‘cause if they are on a know pirate books site they’ve already accepted some risk. People who don’t know what their doing will still get infected.


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In part I agree, but then again, it can become a problem à-la windows security prompt, where people have learned to basically ignore it and give permission to mostly anything.

In other words, in my opinion, don't cry wolf unless there's an actual wolf, or at least something that could reasonably look like one.


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