It's dangerous to ask Joe Sixpack a question like this and accept a simple y/n answer. When people are installing software they are rushing thru w/o thinking.
What the software could do is put something like this on the screen:
DO NOT STORE A BACKUP OF MY PASSWORD
and force the user to opt-out by literally typing all those characters exactly like that:
DO NOT STORE A BACKUP OF MY PASSWORD
At least that way it isn't an unthinking, rote response. Maybe also force them to type
I UNDERSTAND ALL MY DATA WILL BE LOST
Anyway, that would probably only help about half of them. The other half won't care until, as you point out, they can't access their data.
You're quite right in your response to the GP.
It's dangerous to ask Joe Sixpack a question like this and accept a simple y/n answer. When people are installing software they are rushing thru w/o thinking.
What the software could do is put something like this on the screen:
and force the user to opt-out by literally typing all those characters exactly like that: At least that way it isn't an unthinking, rote response. Maybe also force them to type Anyway, that would probably only help about half of them. The other half won't care until, as you point out, they can't access their data.