Too little, too late. The cat is really and truly out of the bag.

As Microsoft did with Windows 10 Google have done with Chrome they have moved the capture of telemetry and personal data from their network to the users platform.

In the case of Chrome the community have the choice to fork our platform and thank google for their contribution, but say no thanks to thier continued stuardship of it.

Sometimes I wonder if senior execs really understand how precarious open source based business models are - like politics we can vote and change the leaders if they stop acting for the common good.