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"It's technically better than nothing," is kind of a bizarre metric.

It's like not allowing the filesystem to use the word "virus" in a file name. Yes, it technically protects against some viruses, but it's really not very difficult to avoid while being a significant problem to a fair number of users with a legitimate use case.

It's not that it's useless. It's that it's stupid.




Do you lock your front door?


Do you brace yours with a bar?


No, but even a steel bar would only slow down a determined thief...so I guess it's worthless?




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