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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

They're just going to do a classical boil-the-frog operation:

Step 1: Make it opt-in and present it as the new cool thing.
Step 2: Make it opt-out, and if the users opts out, show a scary warning about how the cool thing won't work anymore.
Step 3: Silently opt-in, and hide the opt-out option deeply in a settings menu.
Step 4: Silently opt-in, remove opt-out, but it still works with a registry hack. Microsoft apologists will still thinks it's cool because "just use this simple registry hack bro".
Step 5: Remove opt-out alltogether, and silently opt-in everyone who had previously opted out.
Step 6: Enjoy their boiled frog!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You forgot Step 0: make an announcement so overtly egregious that when you walk it back, the compromise sounds reasonable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's no reasonable form of this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

No but there sure is a much more unreasonable form of this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The "two steps forward, one step back" maneuver. Classic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"You can still install it with a local account!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Just disconnect your network cable, press this magic key combination and type this undocumented command: "MSBLAOIGKSDF /ACZSF"

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago

They already had this feature once in Windows 10, and you don't remember because it doesn't work like that.