Why can't browsers do image differencing to detect when the page contains something pretending to be the browser or OS chrome, and plaster warnings overtop?
To be fair, many internet business models operate on the principle of paying to get less garbage (such as ads). And it makes sense from an economic perspective that if you're not being bribed by crapware vendors you'd want to recoup the opportunity cost.
> I don’t care who you are or who you know. I don’t care if you think you’re funny. I don’t care if you think I’m over-reacting.
> We need a lot less negativity and a lot more positivity in our community.
Agreed.
But is threatening a block spree, baiting people so you can banish them, after declaring you don't care to empathize with them really promoting more positivity? Or is this just a piece we can upvote and get outraged over to feel better about having done nothing?
The question is how long it is before it's no longer newsworthy that "police shot and killed a suspected terrorist who had purchased the components necessary for a remotely fired gun; up next, how you can keep your children safe from these threats online".
Perhaps this is more an exposé of human ability to generate rationalizations for chaotic biological workings of their brains, than it is a failing of neural nets to make rational decisions.