Comment by creshal
4 days ago
> But putting my design hat on here: couldn't this be the whole approach?
No, because protecting users is just an excuse. The overreach is the goal.
4 days ago
> But putting my design hat on here: couldn't this be the whole approach?
No, because protecting users is just an excuse. The overreach is the goal.
Having worked in big tech, my money would be on Hanlon's Razor here -- "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"
It isn't adequately explained by incompetence. This is out of the playbook of boiling the frog. Nothing about this is new or unexpected. We have plenty of history about how these things go down. First they make installing device owner chosen software ridiculously laberous. Then they will remove the option altogether.