New term: user-coddlement

[jerith]

I came up with this on the spur of the moment and it seems that nobody else has used it within the reach of your favourite search engine.

User-coddlement (n):
An annoying modification made to a piece of software specifically to assist users who really should know better.

Examples:

• "Are you sure?" confirmations on non-destructive operations.

Comments

[ext_5398]

Renaming "Firefox" to "Web Browser"!

Fortunately, modern Gnome seems to have compromised on "$actual_name $granny_name" for everything, which is a bit of an improvement.

[msmercenary]

That's not my favorite search engine. They're a big multinational corporation that collects my private data and tortures fuzzy kittens for profit.