It depends on what you're trying to do. If you pump the brakes like people were/are trained to do when their cars aren't ABS equipped, you can "fool" the ABS into not kicking in at all. I very nearly had an accident because of this phenomenon, though I wasn't intentionally pumping the brakes, it was just because the guy pulling out of the parking lot in front of me couldn't figure out what the hell he wanted to do. All the same, I don't know that easing off would have the same effect, I think actually releasing the brakes is the only way that it can entirely be defeated.
If you want the brakes to function optimally with ABS, you just hit them and keep your foot planted when the ABS kicks in...works much better that way.
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