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> I don't think people switch phones often enough for the warnings to be a nuisance or be ignored. apparently in some countries they do and that's a reason to
by tripzilch 10y ago
> I don't think people switch phones often enough for the warnings to be a nuisance or be ignored.
apparently in some countries they do and that's a reason to compromise the rest of the world..
just summarising how bizarre this excuse really is.
make it an opt-in setting, in some countries reliable connectivity in a situation of frequently changing devices (the more I think about it, the more contrived it sounds) might be more important than privacy, but in others it very much isn't and the consequences for failing privacy are much worse than missing a message between swapping of devices.
that's not a tradeoff you should get to make for everyone.
the error message itself (I have it on) is not at all obtrusive btw, it's a friendly yellow (like the old Google ads) small type, which a user will either ignore or get a vague sense of unease about not being secure (which is exactly correct), I don't see how this can be further confusing.