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It's hard to interpret a push notification as anything other than a sign that it's a shady site.
by bachmeier 8y ago
It's hard to interpret a push notification as anything other than a sign that it's a shady site.
- simias 8y agoThe problem is that many high profile websites behave like shady actors with plenty of dark patterns these days. Reddit is one of the most glaring examples, but even Google makes you go through hoops to tweak your privacy settings for instance. It seems that we've gone through a strange curve, early internet (up to the early 00's I'd say) was a pretty shady place with scams and malware around every corner if you weren't careful, then we had a decade of relatively smooth sailing as things settled a bit and the players who actually provided good service managed to take over (e.g. Amazon) but now these big players have a monopoly and they are getting greedy and start becoming actively user-hostile again. I wonder what the next step will be.
- nikodunk 8y agoI predict the next step will be less growth-hungry sites taking over that have less VC pressure on them. So businesses with cost structures that can make a few people rich but don't need to show 140% YoY growth. Sites like craiglist, projects from indiehackers. They wouldn't nag me for push notification access – why annoy your customer when your product spreads mostly through word of mouth?