> it’s the obvious truth. Only to those who are woefully ignorant of how any large company work and are unable or unwilling to see passed their own desires. Bu

> it’s the obvious truth. Only to those who are woefully ignorant of how any large company work and are unable or unwilling to see passed their own desires. But let me ask you this, even if we stipulate it's 100% true, how does that help? What does that accomplish? You've simply stated an opinion that those who agree with you will cheer for (changing nothing) and those who disagree with you won't change (also changing nothing). People have this overly simplistic view of how large companies work and ascribe malice to Google in particular for what's essentially just chaos. And I say this as a Xoogler. There are conflicting forces in Google that include, but are not limited to: 1. Protecting the ad revenue business Google is utterly dependent on; and 2. Promoting user privacy and benefits because that's what gets users to keep using your products. Even (1) comes from a wide variety of motivations such as: - Making more money; - The belief that ad-supported models are the only model that works so advertising is an absolute necessity to providing services on the Web. > I don’t need Google “protecting” me And again, you seem to be deliberately missing the point here because you say "I" a lot. What about your parents? Or grandparents? Do they need "complete control" over their machines? And consider for a second the scenario where you're not giving them tech support. This "complete control" is exactly what enables botnets (many of them anyway), fraud, theft, DDoS attacks and so on.