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Please do not call it malware, because it is not. It is just bad software UI.
by baggy_trough 5mo ago
Please do not call it malware, because it is not. It is just bad software UI.
- aprentic 5mo agoWhy not? It's a software feature designed to benefit Google at the expense of the user.
- baggy_trough 5mo agoBecause that is not what malware is.
- aprentic 5mo agoIt might not meet some pedantic definition of "Malware (tm)" but, for all intents and purposes, it fits perfectly.
- 3form 5mo agoIt's _badly intentioned_ (and not just UI). Blackmailing you with losing labelling, which worked fine before all that is a clear proof. So "malware" is not really so far off the point.
- j_maffe 5mo agoNot sure what you mean by blackmailing but it can't be the right word here.
- 3form 5mo agoFeature A exists for years. New feature B enters. If you want to opt out of feature B, you now need to opt out of feature A as well, which you probably liked much more. I don't know a better term than blackmail to describe this. Thesaurus seems to imply blackmail is for money, but so is extortion, and it doesn't give me good suggestions. EDIT: Coercion is more correct, but it's way too mild in my perception.
- baggy_trough 5mo agoThat sounds extremely dramatic when what we're talking about is features in a mail program.
- Zambyte 5mo agoA little malware is still malware.
- baggy_trough 5mo agoIt is not malware at all.
- xerox13ster 5mo agook then. Malformed Software. or, malware.
- Zambyte 5mo agoMalicious, not malformed. Malformed would include buggy software, which is not right. Malware intentionally acts against the users will. Buggy software unintentionally acts against the users will.