"Ask before accessing" is poor word choice
Reported by
fulldec...@gmail.com,
Feb 1 2018
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Access chrome://settings/ 2. Search LOCATION 3. Click CONTENT SETTINGS -> LOCATION What is the expected behavior? Word choice on this page respectfully treats my like an intelligent human being. What went wrong? The default and "recommend" option for location tracking is ASK BEFORE ACCESSING and has a on/off switch set to ON. Intuitively, the OFF state would refer to DO NOT ASK BEFORE ACCESSING. Of course nobody wants that. But actually, the OFF state refers to BLOCKED. --- I believe the current word choice is underhanded. More appropriate would be a radio box which clearly displays the alternatives. Did this work before? N/A Chrome version: 63.0.3239.132 Channel: n/a OS Version: OS X 10.13.3 Flash Version: Shame on you. I believe this underhandedness is intentional.
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Feb 1 2018
Thanks for your report. Since location permission is powerful and dangerous (see <https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/>), there is no option by which sites can get your location without asking. The two options are "Ask first" or "Always deny". I do not (and the UI team did not, at least when this page was designed) share your reading of the effect of disabled that setting, and therefore I don't consider your reading "intuitive". I will bring this up with the UI team to see if their thinking about the design of this page has changed. Also, I must ask that you adhere when reporting bugs to the chromium code of conduct, which is available here: <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md>. Specifically, I ask that you avoid casting aspersions on the motives of the team that built this UI ("I believe this underhandedness is intentional") without full knowledge of the surrounding context.
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Feb 1 2018
Taking ownership of this pending UI team feedback.
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Feb 1 2018
The UI team got back to me. They are not interested in updating this UI - it used to use radio buttons as you describe, but they found that the current toggle-based UI was easier to understand, particularly in the presence of dependent options (as with the Cookies setting, for example). As such, this bug is WontFix.
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Feb 1 2018
A cynical interpretation of what you just said is: > The UI team found this new checkbox was easier to understand -- easier to understand that Google does not want you to uncheck the box.
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Feb 1 2018
Thank you for quickly investigating this. Another issue relating to private and Google making it hard to opt out of location monitoring: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=808146 |
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Comment 1 by fulldec...@gmail.com
, Feb 1 2018