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Aside from often uncommunicated and difficult or impossible to know implications, of enabling a Google service or feature. Aside from those, often in multiple
by pasbesoin 10y ago
Aside from often uncommunicated and difficult or impossible to know implications, of enabling a Google service or feature. Aside from those, often in multiple dimensions (function, privacy, etc.), I am afraid to enable any new Google services or features, because doing so seems so often to be a one-way function with no means of reversal. Once you do -- even just to check something out -- you can never go back.
And then, the whole account-disabling thing. Did they not learn their lesson in that respect with regard to the early Google Plus rollout and all the problems, not to mention bad press, then?
Google doesn't just make mistakes, in such regards, they inhabit them, and they demonstrate a very persistent attitude that there is no problem in all this, in the first place.
I have the Google features I use. As I've mentioned before, I draw the line basically at Google Docs (ok, "Drive", or whatever, now). I don't use much of anything of theirs that is newer.
And, I tend to stick to functionality that they themselves are known for dogfooding and continuing to use, officially, internally.
Hell, even my Nexus 5x was a hassle, with the in my opinion poorly conceived as well as communicated Google Fi "we will take over and eliminate your free-standing Google Voice account/number, with no choice about the matter" behavior.
It's like they have no conception nor care that their users might actually come to rely upon their products and features.
That's a great model for building trust and the value-added customer relationship that goes with it. /sarcasm