<story><title>Uninstall Nano Defender</title><url>https://resynth1943.net/articles/uninstall-nano-defender-immediately/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>Auto-update is such a antifeuture. There is like no circumstances where it is beneficial since you can mever trust it wont break your stuff or add malicoius code. Since it is pushed instantly there is no chance anyone had the time to review it.&lt;p&gt;Eg. Steam ask if it should update a game. Windows just does it and adds Candy Crush and spyware. Two different takes on the same thing.</text></item><item><author>wnevets</author><text>&amp;gt; Raymond inspected the modifications added by the new developers (which was not published to GitHub), revealing their dubious intentions.&lt;p&gt;and chrome will auto-update the extension for you transparently so you don&amp;#x27;t miss out on these new amazing features!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>Windows tried manual updates for years, and even after switching to automated updates still received lots of bad press for security holes that were fixed years earlier. Home Edition taking away the ability not to update is the logical conclusion.&lt;p&gt;Also Microsoft controls the code they push on your computer, they paid the people who wrote it and they take liability for it. Browsers are automatically pushing other people&amp;#x27;s code to your computer</text></comment>
<story><title>Uninstall Nano Defender</title><url>https://resynth1943.net/articles/uninstall-nano-defender-immediately/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rightbyte</author><text>Auto-update is such a antifeuture. There is like no circumstances where it is beneficial since you can mever trust it wont break your stuff or add malicoius code. Since it is pushed instantly there is no chance anyone had the time to review it.&lt;p&gt;Eg. Steam ask if it should update a game. Windows just does it and adds Candy Crush and spyware. Two different takes on the same thing.</text></item><item><author>wnevets</author><text>&amp;gt; Raymond inspected the modifications added by the new developers (which was not published to GitHub), revealing their dubious intentions.&lt;p&gt;and chrome will auto-update the extension for you transparently so you don&amp;#x27;t miss out on these new amazing features!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fireattack</author><text>&amp;gt; there is no circumstances where it is beneficial&lt;p&gt;Do we really need to be this hyperbolic? And Steam &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; auto update games just fine (I even remember it being the default, but not sure.)</text></comment>