I chuckled at this:<p>> "Do you see the impact you created for thousands of us without any warning or explanation? We are not your test subjects," said an angry sysadmin. "We are running professional services for multi million dollar programs. Do you understand how many hours of resources were wasted by your 'experiment'?"<p>Did you, dear sysadmin, pay anything for Google Chrome? No? Are you in any contractual relation to Google that covers your use of Chrome? No? Well, there you have it. You are not a customer, hence you aren't really in any position to demand anything. You basically agreed to take whatever Google shoves down your throat for free, and if that includes "experiments", then that's what it is.<p>If your multi-million dollar programs move so much money around, maybe take some of that to either invest in the necessary software - including the browser - so you are a paying customer and may actually demand anything, or pay some people to be up to date on the intricacies of Google Chrome and test them under your environment or disable them if undesired. The experiments are not exactly a secret program and have existed for a while. Firefox has a similar thing going. The Firefox one can definitely be disabled. The Chrome one unfortunately not (at least I don't know of a way at the moment, there might be one, maybe it's also only available for the Enterprise subscription that I have never personally heard of any business to be using, but for which money is actually paid, hence there might be leverage in that case to force Google to offer an opt-out).<p>Or ultimately you could also just compile yourself a Chromium from scratch and update it regularly. I've done it, it's not that hard, and that gets you the ultimate level of control over that nice free piece of software that you depend your business upon.