> This is to ensure the system is opt-out, not opt-in.
It totally fails to ensure that. The underlying setting is off, but if you don't take deliberate action on installation, it gets switched on. It might as well be on unless you act to switch it off.
The meaning of "opt-in" was settled a long time ago; it means that if you don't take deliberate (and informed) action to opt-in, then you haven't opted in.
[Edit] Sorry, mis-read parent comment. They're trying to say it's opt-in, but the proposal is to make an opt-out UI, with an underlying off setting that gets set to $SOMETHING at installation, defaulting to on.
It totally fails to ensure that. The underlying setting is off, but if you don't take deliberate action on installation, it gets switched on. It might as well be on unless you act to switch it off.
The meaning of "opt-in" was settled a long time ago; it means that if you don't take deliberate (and informed) action to opt-in, then you haven't opted in.
[Edit] Sorry, mis-read parent comment. They're trying to say it's opt-in, but the proposal is to make an opt-out UI, with an underlying off setting that gets set to $SOMETHING at installation, defaulting to on.