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Re:You Can Just Buy Far-UVC by vbelenky on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @08:07PM (#46626560)
Kinda like advertising "Asbestos-Free Cereal" isn't it? If someone was marketing a product to me and they were super insistent about how super duper safe it was I would probably start getting suspicious
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Re:You Can Just Buy Far-UVC by the8472 on Thursday January 15, 2026 @05:32AM (#46630644)
UV rightfully raises concerns about skin damage, highlighting that they're careful about excluding the harmful parts would be helpful for customers who either know just enough to think "UV bad" or to those who wonder how narrow their filters are.

Imo a better analogy would be selling a circular saw with a safety mechanism and hiding the latter in the specsheet.

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Re:You Can Just Buy Far-UVC by gs17 on Thursday January 15, 2026 @12:24PM (#46635972)
No, it's more like advertising asbestos-free talc.
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