Charlie StrossMost tech these days, and especially most software and operating systems, are guilty of persistent sealioning.
Good tools don't sealion their owners.
Cory Doctorow@cstross I think the point is that if you ask "Do you want an upsell/AI/unnecessary feature?" enough times, the user will eventually accidentally press the wrong button and "consent" to whatever it is.
Happened to me last week. Opened the photos app on my phone because I needed to find a pic I took of a sign I urgently needed to ask an airport staffer about, and accidentally clicked the "Yes, store all my photos on your cloud" dialog I'd declined 5,000 times before.
Oggie@pluralistic @cstross I fucking hate that I have done this a few times. They ask every time when you say no, but only once if you say yes, and clawing any of it back is at best difficult, arguably impossible.
beeznatch@Oggie @pluralistic @cstross This feels exactly how I've heard cyber security works versus attackers: the defender has to be right/correct everytime always forever; the attacker only needs you to fail once.