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Burning down London stopped the plague too.

The Great Fire burned central London long after the plague had moved to the poorer outer areas of the city, where it continued to die out gradually unaffected by the fires elsewhere.

I don't get why this flag was disabled on Linux though. Nobody uses "installers" on Linux, come on. I am not sure if malware of this kind even exists on Linux.

The cost of their “solution” seems pretty high in retrospect.

This isnt a binary proposition, they could have solved that issue while respecting user choices, if it had been a priority. The solution they chose inherently was flawed. Hopefully this gives other providers pause before they build similar things.