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> turning on/off certain features without the user's consent. I think that in practice, that applies to only the privacy sensitive features. Would you be upset

> turning on/off certain features without the user's consent. I think that in practice, that applies to only the privacy sensitive features. Would you be upset if suddenly they rolled out a feature that reduced battery consumption by 10%? This particular case was obviously a bug, but I suppose every software manufacturer is continuously doing A/B testing, and 99% of time the user would not even notice. I would be surprised if Google was not doing A/B testing, and did not have the whole framework for doing it.

remir 8y ago
Would you be upset if suddenly they rolled out a feature that reduced battery consumption by 10%? If you're talking about battery saving mode, I would be upset if they activated the feature (turning it on) without my consent, yes. I don't have issues with Google pushing improvement to their code via OS updates.
Dylan16807 8y ago
> Would you be upset if suddenly they rolled out a feature that reduced battery consumption by 10%? If they secretly installed it, of course I would be. It's not like this is the only way to deliver features...
pritambaral 8y ago
> I would be surprised if Google was not doing A/B testing On live (not beta), unsuspecting users, without their consent?