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.
Roy Brander🇨🇦@piyuv @pluralistic @fish @cstross
Teach your children well.
Don't sign up with "Free" services, the way you don't go along with the guy promising "Free Lunch" to new arrivals at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
This communications revolution is very, very new. The first generation to try it has gotten badly burned.
We have to teach our children well to never get into the van in the first place, the way hitchhiking has been vastly reduced.
@RoyBrander @pluralistic @fish @cstross oh definitely, mine will meet my home server with Immich as soon as s/he’s born