> But telling people how this is for their convenience is really demeaning. I see your intention here, but I think you've stepped out of touch with the vast ma

> But telling people how this is for their convenience is really demeaning. I see your intention here, but I think you've stepped out of touch with the vast majority of users here, and I don't mean the "people just want to share their lives on facebook, privacy be damned" kind of way. "Chats are kept, and everything you share, like photos, is put in folders and stored" really is a feature that people want. Not being able to set a default for do/don't save all chat history should be fixed, but what you quote really is for convenience. I search over my gtalk history all the time, as just as much useful information is in there as is in my email. I don't use the Google+ picture auto-upload, but I do use the Dropbox one, so that all the pictures I take with my phone are automatically uploaded to my dropbox folder and available on all of my computers. Those things are really convenient, and I love not having to have to think about them; they're just there when I do need them. I don't see how that could be possibly construed as only motivated by ad revenue and government regulations. What needs to come along with those features: 1) easy to disable/enable with good granularity (per feature, per contact, altogether, etc) 2) possible to secure client-side if I want to 3) government needs to demonstrate probable cause to get warrant to get access to what is not secured client-side 4) I need to be notified within a reasonable amount of time of a warrant being served none of those things preclude these kinds of "nothing is ever lost" features.