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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
I know that flash happy people have take responsibility for their actions. My point was when I said "You can't say that auto updates are good when it's common to prevent people from downgrading." You said previously that preventing downgrading was bad, but if preventing downgrading happens frequently that also makes auto updating bad. You said auto updating was good.
The Garmin comment was just another example of bad auto updates from a long time ago - auto updates have always had problems.
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So your flash-happy people example actually had nothing to do with the point you were trying to make?
If a good thing is used as the carrier for a bad thing, does that make good things less good? No.
If updates were manual only, the vast majority of all devices of every type would never be updated... that would give all those people below-par experiences.
A totally separate point is that knowledgeable people should be able to control what is on their device through non-default means.
The masses, however, should not be allowed to stay on outdated software
Google/Mozilla have learnt and taught that lesson well. So has the average Windows antivirus. Microsoft has a reputation of being a little overeager in that regard (force-restarting while you do work) but that does not negate the validity of their starting POV.