Re:Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
by ehsankia on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:29PM
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Because there's literally nothing they could've said that would make them change their mind. This is the most reasonable response Google could've given. They've addressed every issue as promptly as possible, yet people just dismiss is as PR. It's a lose-lose battle, no matter what they do, people like this will always spin it in a negative way with zero justification.
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Re:Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
by M2Ys4U on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:37PM
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Well they could have make the changes they're saying they're going to make in the first place. Or not have sent their developer relations goons out to say "move along, nothing to see here, folks" when people started complaining.
This is PR. It's damage limitation.
Re:Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
by zbrozek on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:36PM
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They could have removed the feature entirely, or set it to a privacy-friendly and least-surprise friendly default.
Re:Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
by ehsankia on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:31PM
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Sync is off by default, how is that not privacy friendly?
They will be deleting all cookies by default, how is that now privacy friendly?
The core feature itself, setting it off by default defeats the whole point of the feature, because it's for the 99.99% of users that are not power-users. It's also not a privacy issue because, again, sync is off by default.