Yeah this bites me nearly every day.  I can only assume that they have some data that this helps 60%-80% of their users in some way, and they are optimizing for the common case rather than the uncommon case.<p>Not sure that it&#x27;s the right decision, even if it helps the common case, but it may be. And I say this as somebody who&#x27;s not particularly fond of Google as a company or its policies.