Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu...
by dang on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:13AM
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Please don't cross into personal attack. You don't need it to make your substantive points, and it poisons the ecosystem.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu...
by Arcsech on Thursday February 03, 2022 @07:07PM
(#30200908)
I don’t see a personal attack here.
Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu...
by dang on Friday February 04, 2022 @12:06AM
(#30203102)
You have a point—maybe not really a personal attack, but still aggressive and poisonous and therefore not what we want here.
Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu...
by grog454 on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:50PM
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It's unfortunate that this post is being downvoted and considered a "personal attack" (debatable) as it seems to be one of if not the only comment suggesting the most likely explanation: a Google employee trying to maximize engagement / usage metrics for their feature without really thinking through the broader implications. This seems much more likely to me than a grand conspiracy to sneakily collect more peoples' data.
By all means do your job, and hit your metrics. But this is just a dark pattern, which comes up with some new product boundaries so you can default these settings back to on.
There's a certain arrogance to coming into HN of all places and offering a sales explanation that it's actually in our benefit.