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It's something you can disable, and work is already been done to allow the user to further customize it.
Anybody who thinks that feature should ever have been included in the first place should be given a dunce cap and a Vsmile
The fact they've released this feature with a help page that directs you to a "I accept the risks button" is proof enough that this never should've been released like this in the first place.
The feature itself would be great if it were opt-in and easily manageable from the UI, but it was released long before that. Instead, they released a list they control remotely with no UI that's opt-out and then went "we'll put the user in control later". This is exactly the user-hostile approach that Firefox users are sick of.