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0 pointsjunon3y ago0 comments

> opt-out

There's your answer.

> Which part of this do you consider "doing this and gaslighting the community about it"?

Telling long time users that the new owners knew better. Everyone was able to go and check out how they ruined their other products too.

They had an army of people telling them "no" and they did it anyway.

You seem to be familiar with the fiasco so I'm not sure how we aren't seeing the same thing....

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LegionMammal9783y ago

> There's your answer.

So you're saying that opt-out automatic update checking ruined their product by any reasonable definition, and they were entirely aware of this, so by claiming that automatic update checking is useful they were gaslighting their users?

If so, then from what source are we certain that the "army of people telling them 'no'" in the relevant GitHub issues is representative of how their broader user base feels about automatic update checking? And how do we know that they ought to have been similarly certain?

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LegionMammal9783y ago

> There's your answer.

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