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Re:Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of ... by 0x54D5 on Monday September 24, 2018 @07:40PM (#18062431)
That 0.1% doesn't take into account hours spent using the actual app. Power users tend to spend all day in a browser whereas a typical grandma might look at it for 15 minutes and close it. Meanwhile people who have multiple Google accounts and who spend literally all day in the browser are the ones that get the short end of the stick? That makes zero sense and it's why people are starting to hate Google just like any other corporation that makes decisions by committee. There should have been a product owner on the browser team that said "No this is a browser. Not an extension of GSuite."

The total indifference to people's valid use cases is what really grinds my gears.

Chrome is still the only browser that ruins my UX by putting a profile picker into the title bar. A place it has no business being. I literally made a patch and compiled my own version of Chromium for a while to get rid of it. https://github.com/hparadiz/chromium-disable-profile-button-...

I'm so tired of the arrogance. Chrome used to be a beautiful simplistic browser. Now it's just bloat. I'm done. Get off my computer. You guys had your chance and blew it.

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Re:Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of ... by zbentley on Monday September 24, 2018 @10:04PM (#18063020)
If all the power users leave, the app makers do not care. If all the typical grandmas leave, their margins are significantly impacted.

You can figure out the rest.

That’s not a problem or an indictment. Just an observation of how systems work st scale.

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Re:Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of ... by TheKarateKid on Monday September 24, 2018 @10:24PM (#18063092)
How do you think Firefox and Chrome overthrew IE? The power users (us) who set up and fix everyone else's computers spent years telling others why IE is terrible and installed a different browser, and it slowly but surely worked (along with strong developer and media/press support).
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Re:Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of ... by snaky on Monday September 24, 2018 @10:32PM (#18063119)
That's very short term focused observation though. Power users are influencers. When power users leave - especially being annoyed and angry - they start to actively advise against the product left and right, to the regular users and to other power users.
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Re:Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of ... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:01AM (#18063726)
But that's unfortunately how this works. I think people forget market players can, and are, self-destructive, when short-term profits interfere with long-term survival.

It's also part of the reason for the pace of the industry. You pump out as much money as you can from some space, and then move on to focus on the next thing.

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