In exchange for taking control of Chrome updates out of the hands of users Google is accepting the moral responsibility for fixing security issues for those users. They are now abandoning those users.<p>I would hope that as a minimum they would show a very obvious alert to people on abandoned platforms warning them that the autoupdate agreement between user and browser vendor has been broken and that they need to find a new browser.<p>But I think they should go further. Google&#x27;s logic for taking control over updates away from users is that it&#x27;s too dangerous to let people continue to use old insecure versions of web browsers. If old browser versions are too dangerous to use then they should prevent Chrome from running on unsupported platforms since the only versions that will run on those platforms are by definition old insecure versions.