> Glad to see they are listening to user feedback and reacting quickly.
I consider an opt-out as paying lip service to the feedback. Clearly they feel the default is more important than the generated angst. Reaction clearly needs to be even stronger to affect real change. An opt-in (e.g. a dialog on next Google login from Chrome asking for feature enable) is a compromise, an opt-out is to appease the temporarily upset while keeping all that they added in place and defaulted.
This is not an olive branch, don't accept it, condemn the continued incremental marriage of Google browser+services, and continue to move on and de-google yourself where you reasonably can.
I consider an opt-out as paying lip service to the feedback. Clearly they feel the default is more important than the generated angst. Reaction clearly needs to be even stronger to affect real change. An opt-in (e.g. a dialog on next Google login from Chrome asking for feature enable) is a compromise, an opt-out is to appease the temporarily upset while keeping all that they added in place and defaulted.
This is not an olive branch, don't accept it, condemn the continued incremental marriage of Google browser+services, and continue to move on and de-google yourself where you reasonably can.