I agree fully with him. I don’t care what part of your job gets harder, or what software breaks if you can’t make it work without unnecessarily invading my privacy. You could tell me it’s going to shut down the internet for 6 months and I still wouldn’t care.
You’ll have to come up with a really strong defense for why this shouldn’t happen in order to convince most users.
It just means I run a persistent client on your device that is permanently connected to the mothership, instead of only when you have your browser open.
I’m so glad most people don’t truly consider software devs to be real engineers, because this is a perfect example of why that word deserves so much more respect than this field gives it.
You’ll have to come up with a really strong defense for why this shouldn’t happen in order to convince most users.