[brookst]

A product like Chrome probably has 10,000-ish features, maybe more.

Is your position really that any feature that “many” users failed to ask for must require additional consent to install?

And where is this registry features that a sufficient number of users asked for to allow it to be installed silently?

[alterom]

>A product like Chrome probably has 10,000-ish features, maybe more.

It doesn't have 10,000-ish features that take 4GB of space.

Chrome doesn't take 40TB on my hard drive.

The machine I'm typing it on has 10GB free right now, and that was after I cleaned it up. I noticed the hard drive filling up when I was doing nothing, but I didn't suspect Chrome of all tihngs.

[brookst]

Ah, so it’s not so much “nobody asked for this”, it is more “this is a pain for my specific and unusual use case”. Also fair, just a different thing.

[alterom]

>“this is a pain for my specific and unusual use case”.

Since when "being tight on storage space" is a "specific and unusual" case?

That's the whole marketing strategy of selling devices with small built-in storage (and no expandable storage, as iPhones do).

In any case, not wanting a ~150MB installation file to silently download and shit a ~4GB file all over your filesystem is not an unusual* case.

As sufficiently many people have pointed out.