[sturza]

Your PMs should not decide what your software does with my hardware without me giving my informed consent.

Our PMs don't like making things opt-in.

-> Your users don't like making things opt-out. Low usage metrics is a UX problem. Activating it without informed consent gives you bloated metrics anyway.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

It’s just not true that users don’t like making things opt-out. HN Users tend not to like it but I think a lot of users dislike the alternatives: either because they’re undiscoverable (toggle in settings or a menu) or intrusive (various sorts of what’s new overlays). Imo, the question of when to make things opt-in vs. opt-out is fairly subtle and largely depends on the feature and pre-existing trust.

[sturza]

There are infinite ways on how to inform users of a new feature and ask to activate it.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

And nearly all of them are annoying and disrupt my flow.

[bayindirh]

The same thing disrupts your flow allows me to make informed decisions, and I'm happy to be offered a choice, and ability to change my mind later.

[graphememes]

cookie popups that don't even work