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by Karellen 1157 days ago
> Either you're security-conscious or you do random changes based on anonymous forum posts, I just don't really see an overlap.

I think there's going to be a not-totally-insignificant minority of people out there who are both worried about security, but just don't have great technical knowledge. (They sometimes show up on r/privacy if you need convincing they even exist.) Even if it's a really small percentage of users, given how large the Windows install base is, that's still going to be a fair amount of people looking for any kind of fix for the "problem" that their security scanner has warned them about.