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Re: Product Updates Based on Your Feedback

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Post by babuskov »

derefr wrote: post #255
kodablah wrote: post #189

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> Glad to see they are listening to user feedback and reacting quickly. I consider an opt-out as paying lip service to the feedback. Clearly they feel the default is more important than the generated angst. Reaction clearly needs to be even stronger to affect real change. An opt-in (e.g. a dialog on next Google login from Chrome asking for feature enable) is a compromise, an opt-out is to appease the temporarily upse…

You seem to be looking at the choice of opt-in vs. opt-out from the perspective of a user who actually cares about the feature. Much more common, though, I'd say, is the type of user who will accept whatever the default is, because they just don't care . Compare: the organ-donor registry. When it's opt-in, most people don't opt in. When it's opt-out, most people don't opt out. Most people just don't care. If you thin…

> Compare: the organ-donor registry. When it's opt-in, most people don't opt in. When it's opt-out, most people don't opt out. Most people just don't care.

Most people don't know it exists or that they have an option. You cannot care about something if you don't know it's there.

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Post by hellofunk »

pmh wrote: post #4
vtail wrote: post #3

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Thomas, could you please explain the reference to arch-competitor - I might have missed any reactions by Mozilla/MSFT(?). Thanks!

Eric Law works for Microsoft on Edge

And he also helped build chrome, so…

Re: Product Updates Based on Your Feedback

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Post by dandare »

> When you sign out, either directly from Chrome or from any Google website, you’re completely signed out of your Google Account.

Am I reading this correctly? When I sign out from one of the Gmail accounts I keep open, I will be signed out of Chrome? I hope this is a misunderstanding.

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Post by sjwright »

throwaway8879 wrote: post #151
fermienrico wrote: post #110

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At this rate, the poor are better off without tv, radio and magazines. They’re largely just an entry portal into psychological extortion by these advertising firms. I’m a huge fan of publicly funded media such as NPR and your local public radio station.

I'd rather have the poor decide what is good for them, and not you.

That sounds like a good theory from our comfortable, affluent office chairs... until you think about it for approximately five seconds.

Would you rather have the children decide what they should learn in school, or the injured decide how their wound should be dressed? A fundamental aspect of our society's advancement is that we have become specialists: we almost all wear socks but very few of us would know how to make them. And even if we could, we wouldn't be able to make them quite so efficiently.

The poor—or the middle class, or the rich—shouldn't have to decide how they are being informed about the world any more than they should be expected to decide which type of stitching is used to assemble their socks.

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Post by ndnxhs »

ankka wrote: post #236
nachtigall wrote: post #233

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Does gmail really not work in another browser like Firefox? Seriously? How is this possible?

Almost everything runs just fine in Firefox. Google software seems to be chrome-optimized, but it's usually only slightly slower on Firefox - it still works.

Some google websites are chrome only because of the use of some non standard plugins.

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Post by Arn_Thor »

dandare wrote: post #266

> When you sign out, either directly from Chrome or from any Google website, you’re completely signed out of your Google Account. Am I reading this correctly? When I sign out from one of the Gmail accounts I keep open, I will be signed out of Chrome? I hope this is a misunderstanding.

Just tried and that certainly seems to be the case. Signing in, or out, of either chrome or website accounts will reflect that action in the other space.

Re: Product Updates Based on Your Feedback

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Post by clear_dg »

ux-app wrote: post #88
Meai wrote: post #36

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It does seem weird that this would be lauded. I want my browser to be completely independent of what I'm doing on the website because there is no telling what the browser might be doing on my OS and frankly if I want to sign into a website, I will. It's not any of my browser's business what I do on the websites I visit. This seems like a fundamental part of sandboxing but maybe other people don't see it that way. I i…

> maybe other people don't see it that way If the HN backlash is anything to go by, a lot of people see it the same way as you (me included). Every company will act in it's best interest not ours, particularly in the case of Google who are blatantly building out a vision of what they want the web to be for 1 singular purpose: to more closely monitor you for the purpose of selling your online activity to the highest b…

> If the HN backlash is anything to go by, a lot of people see it the same way as you (me included).

HN isn't representative of most users of Chrome. I doubt that we qualify as "a lot" to Google. An extremely vocal minority, at best.

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