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Sean Coates Jul 4, 2023

A really annoying dark pattern I see over and over:

- start using an app or service
- agree to receive notifications such as “your car is here” or “someone replied to you”
- time passes
- app or service starts abusing notifications to get me to engage via promotions or even plain advertising

Often my easiest recourse there is to turn off the app’s notification privileges.

Abusive, short-sighted, and dumb. You’re never getting that permission back.

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Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

@sean So many businesses lose sight of their reason to exist, which should be to provide goods or services that consumers need. (I avoid saying ‘customers’, because there are so many businesses whose customers are advertisers, not consumers.)

Short-term greed inevitably destroys reputation and long-term viability. Often this is driven by investors who don’t understand and don’t care, as long as they get a quick, profitable exit.