alt Hacker NewsThank you for going out of your way to deny my exact experience. Do you think I'm doing this to rag on Google? And you're this eager to defend them?
I'm on gentoo. I have to update chrome manually. I updated it. On update I _never_ get a "what's new" page. I've had this profile for more than a decade so I have no actual idea why, but, I can absolutely tell you, I do *not* get one. After update it started consuming all my bandwidth. This use did not show in it's task manager. I have a metered connection. This is a problem for me. I worried it was a compromised plugin. I had to spend 10 minutes in Firefox discovering why chrome was doing this then going to the configuration and disabling this.
This was a disappointing experience. I'm sorry you feel differently; other than stating the obvious, I seriously have no idea what you and the other corporate defense squad members are trying to achieve with this gaslighting nonsense.
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You literally wrote:
> I've never had a "What's new" tab ever open because I disable the customized home page where that's displayed.
I'm not "denying your experience" of not having the what's new tab. I'm denying your explanation for it.
You wrongly thought it was due to disabling the home page, and then you were insulting to the parent with the snarky "I'm guessing you're not aware that's an option".
You were the one who wasn't aware of the real explanation. Now you make up a totally unwarranted accusations ("going out of your way to deny my exact experience", "gaslighting nonsense"), and add character assassination on top ("you're this eager to defend them?", "corporate defense squad members").
Your comment is extremely inappropriate. Please re-read the HN guidelines, especially:
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
That makes sense. You aren't really "updating" at all. You're basically reinstalling a new Chrome on every update. It makes sense then that you aren't seeing "what's new" because that's not how a fresh install starts up.
Note that this package and update is actually not maintained by Google at all, it's done by Gentoo: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Chromium/How_to_bump_Ch...
I hate to be an apologist for anything but I think you are pointing fingers in the wrong place. The Google-official releases use the built-in automatic updater and do show What's New. This is a Gentoo release and they chose to do their own thing for updates.