I also deleted my account when news of this nonsense non-feature hit. And their disabling it doesn't earn them back any points in my book.
There's no way to honestly make that move as a mistake. There's no way to 1. implement this feature as an opt-out and 2. do it without any notification to the userbase, as a mistake or as a "failure of communication".
This move can only happen, and only happen the way it did, because there is a core irreconcilable difference between my concept of privacy and theirs.
And as far as I'm concerned, their concept of 'privacy' can go get fucked with a rusty pitchfork.
I also deleted my account when news of this nonsense non-feature hit. And their disabling it doesn't earn them back any points in my book.
There's no way to honestly make that move as a mistake. There's no way to 1. implement this feature as an opt-out and 2. do it without any notification to the userbase, as a mistake or as a "failure of communication".
This move can only happen, and only happen the way it did, because there is a core irreconcilable difference between my concept of privacy and theirs.
And as far as I'm concerned, their concept of 'privacy' can go get fucked with a rusty pitchfork.