Comment by 3form
3 months ago
It's _badly intentioned_ (and not just UI). Blackmailing you with losing labelling, which worked fine before all that is a clear proof. So "malware" is not really so far off the point.
3 months ago
It's _badly intentioned_ (and not just UI). Blackmailing you with losing labelling, which worked fine before all that is a clear proof. So "malware" is not really so far off the point.
Not sure what you mean by blackmailing but it can't be the right word here.
Feature A exists for years. New feature B enters. If you want to opt out of feature B, you now need to opt out of feature A as well, which you probably liked much more.
I don't know a better term than blackmail to describe this. Thesaurus seems to imply blackmail is for money, but so is extortion, and it doesn't give me good suggestions.
EDIT: Coercion is more correct, but it's way too mild in my perception.
That sounds extremely dramatic when what we're talking about is features in a mail program.
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