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.
bomberfish@pluralistic @cstross what photos app is it? so i can stay farrrrrr away
B O@pluralistic @fish @cstross I erroneously onboarded my father into google photos, back when they were offering unlimited cloud storage, believing his photos would be safer with some backup mechanism. How naive I was… google rolled back that policy some time ago, reducing quota to 15gb, and started bombarding my parents with alerts/warnings for upgrade. What’s worse was since photos/drive shares storage with mail, when you’re out of storage you’re not able to receive emails. My parents were used to the interface and were hesitant to remove all their photos, so every 2 weeks I had to help them remove some photos so they had enough storage for mail. I got them out completely last month, finally.
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@piyuv @pluralistic @fish @cstross
Just a plain mean thing to do and really stressful for less technical users
Hate the kind of corporate calculations involved where they must reckon the number of people who give in to get the warning to go away offsets those who change providers
Just a plain mean thing to do and really stressful for less technical users
Hate the kind of corporate calculations involved where they must reckon the number of people who give in to get the warning to go away offsets those who change providers