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No. They bear some responsibility for their abusive updating mechanism. They did bad and they should feel bad. Users have no choice but to take whatever update
by apostacy 7y ago
No. They bear some responsibility for their abusive updating mechanism. They did bad and they should feel bad.
Users have no choice but to take whatever updates they throw at us, and have no recourse but to sit around and wait for another update to be pushed.
There is no way to roll updates back, and disabling updates is obfuscated and hidden away behind an obscure terminal command that nobody would discover on their own.
Google invited themselves into the guts of our computer on the pretense of updating their browser, and then they made a mess.
If Google explicitly laid out what they were doing and asked permission, many users would not grant it, which is why they are so covert about it. It isn't that it is being unobtrusive, it is that it is hiding.
I swear, only Google can get away with this. Nobody was this defensive when Microsoft pushed Windows 10 on people.