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It's great that there is a way to turn it off, but the root problem, again and again, is that it is on by default without obtaining the user's opt-in consent. The company (again) made a unilateral decision about what the software should do, without asking the user. This is such a common, terrible practice of Silicon Valley.

I don't care if the feature cures cancer or gives me a free puppy. I don't want a feature running without my explicitly commanding it to run.



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