• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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    Oh I guess I should totally put my confidence in random sketchy websites. Great point!

    It literally doesn’t matter if it’s a publisher site or not, users can’t tell the difference and it normalizes clicking links from a web search and running whatever software download the user sees first.

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      Go on then, explain to me how the well known software publishers website is random and sketchy.

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        I feel like you’ve demonstrated very effectively how users lack the skills to understand what they are reading online 😂

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          It isn’t a random, sketchy or inherently untrustworthy site.

          You shouldn’t have any issue explaining how you would go about verifying that a software repo is trustworthy and how that differs from verifying a website.

          Unless you don’t actually know what you’re talking about…