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<blockquote data-quote="Fritz" data-source="post: 582616" data-attributes="member: 42836">I understand where you&#039;re coming from [USER=54286]@Wave[/USER]. But making decisions comes as natural to life as the responsibilities that accompany them.Yes, AV companies are there to protect peoples computers as best they can. Which ends where it collides with the customer&#039;s wishes. Advice is fine, coercion isn&#039;t.There&#039;s just a fine line between protection and patronization.We have traffic lights that advise to stop on red. Some people choose to ignore that. That&#039;s their choice and they will have to suffer possible consequences. And yet I&#039;d hate if cars were turned off remotely by traffic lights because some people are dumb. I don&#039;t want to live in a world, where I need a sign to know that hot coffee is hot, that I shouldn&#039;t put hamsters in microwaves and not stick a knife in my eye.This isn&#039;t about computers or technology, this is about the concept of protecting humans from themselves, as if they&#039;d forget to breathe if they weren&#039;t constantly reminded. A highly unnerving concept I might add. We were given brain.exe for a reason.What&#039;s the next step? I can&#039;t deactivate Defender in order to install an alternative, because M$ wants to &quot;help&quot; me making &quot;the right choice™&quot;?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fritz, post: 582616, member: 42836"] I understand where you're coming from [USER=54286]@Wave[/USER]. But making decisions comes as natural to life as the responsibilities that accompany them. Yes, AV companies are there to protect peoples computers as best they can. Which ends where it collides with the customer's wishes. Advice is fine, coercion isn't. There's just a fine line between protection and patronization. We have traffic lights that advise to stop on red. Some people choose to ignore that. That's their choice and they will have to suffer possible consequences. And yet I'd hate if cars were turned off remotely by traffic lights because some people are dumb. I don't want to live in a world, where I need a sign to know that hot coffee is hot, that I shouldn't put hamsters in microwaves and not stick a knife in my eye. This isn't about computers or technology, this is about the concept of protecting humans from themselves, as if they'd forget to breathe if they weren't constantly reminded. A highly unnerving concept I might add. We were given brain.exe for a reason. What's the next step? I can't deactivate Defender in order to install an alternative, because M$ wants to "help" me making "the right choice™"? [/QUOTE]

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