[greenhexagon]

The problem is we've all seen this pattern before.

Push the disabled by default, opt-in only version. Face only small backlash because it's opt-in. Then in a later update, switch it to on by default but with an easy opt-out. Then make the opt-out harder or disable other functionality unless users opt-in.

This general pattern happens for all sorts of privacy-invading data collection, advertisements, etc. Companies release a good product, then the enshittification slowly happens over multiple updates, each of which is only a small enough step to not cause too much outrage, until the end product is completely user-hostile.

[djur]

When have we seen that pattern before?

[johnnyanmac]

Amazon Prime and any other service that went from "free with ads" and "paid ad-free" to adding a "paid with ads" and "pay even more to remove the ads you used to have removed".

This includes Windows as a whole. It's almost incredible how many different settings you have to dig into to get most of them out.

[dixie_land]

Microsoft Edge comes to mind

[kayodelycaon]

Facebook and Microsoft Windows come to mind.

Also, companies making opt-in features silently into opt-out ones.

[MikusR]

Features that require quite sizeable server resources?