Untill we have reviews, we can’t decide on what is a good deal or not.

I agree, it is a slight annoyance, but that is all it is.

This is about evening the playing field, making other mapping services having a less difficult way to compete

Talk about hyperbole…

Google Maps is over!

No, the integration in the search results when searching the web might be gone, but you can still go to https://maps.google.com/ and find what you need.

This is not a significant shift with how we are interacting with Google, it is a minor change.

Calm down.

That is a fair answer.

Though I would hesitate to use your trust in your own ISP and VPN as a blanket statement for trust with regards to other’s setup

That is idiotic.

VPNs absolutely have their places.

But if you don’t trust your ISP, why would you trust your VPN service with all your internet data?

This is why I boycott Logitech, they started pushing the Logitech Download Assistant through Windows Update as soon as you connect a Logitech mouse/keyboard.

It autoruns not only when it is first installed but on every startup.

It is rather annoying to try and uninstall it, I don’t get why there has been so little backlash against this…

Microsoft permitting this is devaluing Windows Update, the driver (.inf) should be installed automatically, any executable file that WU wants to download and run on your computer should just bring up a small Windows notification saying something like this:

The device you just installed requests to download and run the following program from Windows Update:

Logitech Download Assistant

Will you approve or reject this request? Approve/Reject

It is just terrible that this is permitted