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.
I can relate to the author. Software nowadays is developed as if telling the user, “We told you to use
$feature, and yet you’re too stupid to understand basic obedience, so we’ll smear$featureon 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.
“Do you like our app?”
[Yes] [No]
Both options open an app store rating dialog.
*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.
The worst are the ones that have mailto links behind them so it opens your email app and creates a draft.
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