[ramblerman]

Look we all know how the world works so please, spare the BS.

By all means do your job, and hit your metrics. But this is just a dark pattern, which comes up with some new product boundaries so you can default these settings back to on.

There's a certain arrogance to coming into HN of all places and offering a sales explanation that it's actually in our benefit.

[dang]

Please don't cross into personal attack. You don't need it to make your substantive points, and it poisons the ecosystem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[Arcsech]

I don’t see a personal attack here.

[dang]

You have a point—maybe not really a personal attack, but still aggressive and poisonous and therefore not what we want here.

[grog454]

It's unfortunate that this post is being downvoted and considered a "personal attack" (debatable) as it seems to be one of if not the only comment suggesting the most likely explanation: a Google employee trying to maximize engagement / usage metrics for their feature without really thinking through the broader implications. This seems much more likely to me than a grand conspiracy to sneakily collect more peoples' data.

[hnfong]

I also fail to see where the personal attack lies...