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When the detector was first created the databases were a lot smaller and the API a lot slower, but the databases have grown (especially the NPM database, due to the large volume of malicious packages that keep getting published) and they'll only continue to do so while in the meantime the API has had improvements made so that it's faster.
This means we're approaching a point where it'll be a better default to use the api rather than downloading the databases, which this lets people opt-in to globally