[brokenmachine]

The problem is that you're in the 0.001% of people who want their software complicated like an airline cockpit.

Most people don't give a shit, they just want to check their gmail and couldn't care less. They don't even read the alert boxes that do pop up. They just click almost anything blindly.

As a result, companies get away with dark patterns and privacy-compromising changes like this.

I'm somewhere in the middle. I don't want airline-cockpit controls, but I do want the ability to not sync to the cloud/NSA if I want.

I also don't want to be tricked into syncing by some dark pattern silent update that makes an ambiguous clickbox that doesn't clearly say what the privacy implications are either.

[hrktb]

Yes, I think the middle ground will be the majority. All the more so actual “casual” users that want stuff that “just work” will use their phone or tablet, or the default browser already installed and is good enough.

Chromebooks are in an interesting position, with a chance to have newer users. But then they will literally live their life in the browser.

In that sense, Chrome users are already set apart I think.