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[–] huginn@feddit.it 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The nag screen is important for a bunch of less technically literate people who would otherwise install malware without thinking twice.

Or even once.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 9 points 5 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

[–] huginn@feddit.it 1 points 5 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.

[–] SMillerNL@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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