I've continued to become increasingly uncomfortable with Google's opaqueness. Just the other day, I went to adjust Dad's advanced settings in Chrome, because t

I've continued to become increasingly uncomfortable with Google's opaqueness. Just the other day, I went to adjust Dad's advanced settings in Chrome, because they are now using Google Cloud Print. That was actually connected to their non-cloud-ready printer using Mom's Google/Gmail account. But when I tried to go in the check and adjust settings, Chrome itself -- not the Google web-based interface to Cloud Print -- prompted for renewed sign in, even though I'd just signed into the web property as Mom. When I attempted to use her ID to do this for the Chrome browser, I received a message back that the last/previous such authentication had occurred under Dad's Google ID. Despite the face that, the other week, I set up this Cloud Print-ing nonsense using Mom's ID. And... no links to documentation. Just this sudden sort of "fuck you" opaque messaging. And all this... because their very reliable wireless network printing to their Brother 2170W printer has stopped working, and I was trying to investigate whether this Cloud Print functionality and the Windows service or whatever that it can and did apparently drop as an option to support printing when not signed into one's Google account on the Windows PC supporting and driving the non-Cloud-Print-ready printer, whether that might be getting in the way of the normal, non-Cloud-Print wireless/network printing. Argh! By the way, the printer did start printing just fine, once I had Dad connect it with a USB cable. So, it is basically working. I suspect this Cloud Printing nonsense. (Set up so Mom can print from her new Samsung Android tablet.) Troubleshooting it -- especially if they want to continue using it while also being able to use normal wireless/network printing? Not looking forward to that, so much. Add in everyone else's "Google does this (or doesn't) and refuses to communicate on it nor actively support it" story, and... You are becoming your own version of Microsoft, Google. Except... for a while, with Microsoft, if you paid, you actually got support.