In this case yes, it sounds like the pessimistic viewpoint may be the right one. However, for a while now HN has been going downhill with armchair analysis that inevitably concludes that any action taken by a business is wrong/harmful/bad, so I am thankful you took the time to be thoughtful before reacting.
whenever it comes to web/data/privacy, default should be to not trust anyone, block all requests, deny deny deny. if and only if a company can prove they can be trusted, then on a compay-by-company/site-by-site basis should they be allowed to do things. that should be a very steep hill to climb.
blanket optimism sounds like a nice lifestyle of the young, but with age comes realization the world only takes advantage and wisdom leads to being more pessimistic. question everything including authority is how i was raised.
It’s too early to make any definitive judgements on the future of this extension. There are many obvious ways that this acquisition could—and let’s be honest, probably will—go badly for the end user. I was hoping that someone could come up with a plausible optimistic outcome.
We will know definitively when the next updates to the extension comes out. Until then we are all just speculating.
