[baggy_trough]

Please do not call it malware, because it is not. It is just bad software UI.

[3form]

It's _badly intentioned_ (and not just UI). Blackmailing you with losing labelling, which worked fine before all that is a clear proof. So "malware" is not really so far off the point.

[j_maffe]

Not sure what you mean by blackmailing but it can't be the right word here.

[3form]

Feature A exists for years. New feature B enters. If you want to opt out of feature B, you now need to opt out of feature A as well, which you probably liked much more.

I don't know a better term than blackmail to describe this. Thesaurus seems to imply blackmail is for money, but so is extortion, and it doesn't give me good suggestions.

EDIT: Coercion is more correct, but it's way too mild in my perception.

[baggy_trough]

That sounds extremely dramatic when what we're talking about is features in a mail program.

[Zambyte]

A little malware is still malware.

[baggy_trough]

It is not malware at all.

[aprentic]

Why not?

It's a software feature designed to benefit Google at the expense of the user.

[baggy_trough]

Because that is not what malware is.

[aprentic]

It might not meet some pedantic definition of "Malware (tm)" but, for all intents and purposes, it fits perfectly.

[xerox13ster]

ok then.

Malformed Software. or, malware.

[Zambyte]

Malicious, not malformed. Malformed would include buggy software, which is not right. Malware intentionally acts against the users will. Buggy software unintentionally acts against the users will.