Not at all. The previous pop-up gave you the opportunity to switch off every item individually. What do you think would happen if new items were added?
The new button sets a new default that affects new options for data collection. And yes, adding one new field that affects user configuration across all Google properties (or even two major Google properties, such as the main site and YouTube) is a one-quarter project. Privacy review, legal review, data storage assessment to make sure an additional Boolean isn't going to blow a limit somewhere, thinking through all permutations of options users could already have set to make sure that this new feature doesn't break existing user configurations... Hell, they probably had to do analysis to make sure that you couldn't uniquely identify users based on the setting because of how many / how few people would click reject all. And did they roll it out everywhere or just in europe? Europe only requires additional work.
It's a big corporation, extrapolating how it works from small corporations leads to inaccurate conclusions.
That may well be. However, I’d argue that effects like these are just the cost of doing business at their scale – and therefore entirely their problem. No one outside of the affected corporation should need to care at all.
Oh, definitely. This overview was an explanation for why "Just adding one new option" is a one-quarter project and not nearly as simple as people from smaller operations assume it will be.
... in fact, I think this is indicative of the risk Google experiences now of disruption. At their scale, they are no longer agile. When a company is willing to spend money on a daily fine for exceeding the target deadline after three months, they're signalling strongly that smaller, more focused operations can out-maneuver them.
The new button sets a new default that affects new options for data collection. And yes, adding one new field that affects user configuration across all Google properties (or even two major Google properties, such as the main site and YouTube) is a one-quarter project. Privacy review, legal review, data storage assessment to make sure an additional Boolean isn't going to blow a limit somewhere, thinking through all permutations of options users could already have set to make sure that this new feature doesn't break existing user configurations... Hell, they probably had to do analysis to make sure that you couldn't uniquely identify users based on the setting because of how many / how few people would click reject all. And did they roll it out everywhere or just in europe? Europe only requires additional work.
It's a big corporation, extrapolating how it works from small corporations leads to inaccurate conclusions.