User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Followed pages - a new way to stay up-to-date on your favorite wiki pages/@comment-20644-20100506194516

Whether or not people feel that their privacy is being invaded by this should be up to them, not the administrators of a wiki or a small group of users who don't like it. Other users may like it and think it's a great feature, so why should they be punished by having it taken away on an entire wiki?

If a user wants to have the feature enabled for themselves, then that should be their right to choose to do so. If they don't, that's what the individual opt out feature is for. A wiki-wide opt out just seems completely redundant, unnecessary, and unfair to users.