Ted SpenceLet’s talk about a problem - software cannot be trusted anymore. In the past, if I allowed an app to send me notifications, I’d get alerted for things I wanted to hear about. Now every app uses spurious notifications as a way to artificially boost their daily active user count. I am one by one having to shut off notifications on apps that used to be reliable products. I’ve disabled notifications on linkedin because it keeps sending me ads and random unnecessary alerts.
We fundamentally need a new type of option: the ability to grant software privileges that are completely phony. I need to be able to *pretend* to grant an app the ability to send me notifications, but then to have all those notifications sent into the void. Untrustworthy software should not be able to know what privileges I have granted it.
mhoye@Tedspence I straight up want to be able to lie to software. Access to my contacts? Enjoy this ocean of autogenerated gibberish. Location? I’m on the moon, fuck you.
@mhoye if you have the ability to spoof your location, I highly encourage you to select Bouvet Island. In addition to actually having an ISO 3166 country code, Bouvet Island is occupied entirely by walruses and is visited by humans once or twice per decade
@Tedspence strong suggestion. I’d also considered the Marianas Trench.