Comment by javajosh
3 years ago
I was expecting this response, and let me say: it fills me with distaste. You cut off any possibility of improvement, on their part, because no matter what they do, you won't accept it. It is the opposite of constructive criticism: it is an ideological stance.
I'm having a difficult time trying to remember the last time Google benevolently made a change to improve user privacy without trying to further entrench their status.
This doesn't seem fair to wholly categorize skepticism of Google's motives as an "ideological stance" if Google hasn't demonstrated any willingness to change.
> because no matter what they do, you won't accept it.
It's not about acceptance. It's about trust. Trust has two key components:
1) It's earned. Full stop.
2) Regardless of how much trust equity you've built, it can be lost instantly.
Like it or not, this is how trust works. Accepting what Google does is one thing, but at this point there's no reasonable reason to trust it.
New privacy features that ship less finger printing data? Part of some nefarious plot to harm their competitors ability to harvest data. Won't anybody think of the poor third party tracking/finger printing providers?
Trust is like a mirror - you can break it and you can fix it, but you'll always see the cracks and wonder what the future holds.