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Re:“AV is my single biggest impediment to shipping a secure ... by maxerickson on Thursday December 01, 2016 @11:05AM (#13080344)
I think the premise is that broken AV doing nothing would be better than broken AV injecting itself into the browser.

So to get past that premise, you have to remove the "broken" part before the method of injection matters.

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Re:“AV is my single biggest impediment to shipping a secure ... by Bartweiss on Thursday December 01, 2016 @12:39PM (#13081451)
Yep, this is it. AV is fundamentally a security product. If my music player is insecure, it's still playing music and I'll lose that feature by uninstalling it. If my AV is insecure, there's really no downside to uninstalling it.
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