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Re:Non-Consensual Personalization by yupper32 on Friday February 04, 2022 @01:15AM (#30203465)
That's a ridiculous idea. 99.9% of people want a default experience that works well without configuring anything.
Re:Non-Consensual Personalization by bo1024 on Friday February 04, 2022 @01:23AM (#30203492)
I don't think you took this part into account.

> There might be a rich marketplace of both free and paid experiences that I could download and install into my browser.

If 0.1% of people can build and customize things, the other 99.9% benefit without having to work for it.

Re:Non-Consensual Personalization by kzrdude on Friday February 04, 2022 @06:05AM (#30205315)
95% of people also want a stable experience, and dislike changes. Which is violated when they don't control the interface.

Spotify is the worst. Elements "randomly" change spatial location all the time.

Re:Non-Consensual Personalization by _Qeomash_ on Friday February 04, 2022 @01:26AM (#30203504)
But the moment the default stops working well, there had better be a configuration somewhere to change it so it works well again.