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timid  ·  2253 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Google to allow Chrome users to disable controversial login feature following complaints

Yeah, its always opt out at first.

Google has shown their true colors over and over again. Where they really messed up is not making it opt out in the first place. That seems to be the winning strategy. Make a change that will be unpopular with the privacy aware crowd, add an opt out option to appease them while default is opt in for those that dont know any better. Then after people have forgotten/moved on, remove the opt out and you have the new normal.

Edit: for email you might want to check out FastMail. You pay for the service so you're not the customer, and you can use your own domain or one of theirs.





mk  ·  2253 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They've definitely lost their soul. They were different once upon a time, but this was inevitable. As much as the Chrome login pissed me off, it was the Chinese search engine that did it. They'd support autocracy in the US when push came to shove.

user-inactivated  ·  2253 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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mk  ·  2252 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No, back before AdWords, they did. They were idealistic once.