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A world where a corporate entity (or any entity for that matter) tries to interfere with the way we communicate is not "better". As someone wrote in this thread already, tools we use are an extension of ourselves, and we should be able to form whatever thoughts and opinions we want, without any sort of "influence", no matter how minor, even if it's optional. People go for defaults and this seems like a giant slippery slope.


They are auto suggestions. If you don’t want the feature disable it. But don’t ask society or the majority to agree with you. Most people agree with what google is doing and find it helpful otherwise they would simply turn it off.


The majority of society will not even be aware of such a change, because the majority goes with the default settings provided to them. Also source on people agreeing with BigCo being helpful, please.




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