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[–] 12 points 6 months ago

It's misleading because saying "search the computer" implies a breadth of scan that isn't present. That's like saying a website "searches the computer" to grab cookies generated by that site; technically true but worded to be misleading.

To be clear this is bad, but it's important to be clear when explaining why it is bad to avoid creating resentment when the person you are explaining it to looks deeper into it themself and finds that it's not as bad as your explanation was implying.

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