Gmail's rapid descent into belittling their users, powered by AI.
  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
    16·
    6 days ago

    I can relate to the author. Software nowadays is developed as if telling the user, “We told you to use $feature, and yet you’re too stupid to understand basic obedience, so we’ll smear $feature on your filthy face until you swallow it.” That includes all of Big Tech, and even software from some small/mid devs who ape Big Tech.

    Cue to how “not now” became the new “no”. Frankly, it makes me respect when a dev includes a “no, and don’t ask again” option.

    Google is a privacy / data protection hellscape and, regardless of all this ruckus, it’s sensible to drop GMail to reduce the exposure as much as you can. Frankly I probably should do the same with my Yahoo account, even if it’s older than some adults so migration becomes hell annoying. Plus I got a Proton address already for some years.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

      Cue to how “not now” became the new “no”. Frankly, it makes me respect when a dev includes a “no, and don’t ask again” option.

      “Do you like our app?”

      [Yes] [No]

      Both options open an app store rating dialog.

      • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        *sigh* and then people wonder why I’d rather use a computer, and my phone is basically… well, for telephoning.

        But yeah, this sort of trashy dev beelines towards mobile.

      • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        The worst are the ones that have mailto links behind them so it opens your email app and creates a draft.