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The final straw that got me to ditch android was Google sending me push notifications asking me to review places I've been to, via maps. If you want reviews, p
by unlinked_dll 7y ago
The final straw that got me to ditch android was Google sending me push notifications asking me to review places I've been to, via maps.
If you want reviews, pay secret shoppers. And if you want me to use your app, don't make it painfully obvious you're spying on exactly where I go and when to do what.
- soylentcola 7y agoI think it was more a way to crowdsource reviews and recommendation engine. It's certainly worth questioning the use of "unpaid labor" to improve a service, but I don't know if I'd call it "spying". Use of the service essentially boils down to "I tell it where I am/where I want to go. It tells me how best to get there/how to find the thing I want to find." I'm not sure how you would do that if you didn't share your location and destination/search terms with it. But yeah, I disabled that thing too. Not because I considered a request for reviews a terrible overreach, but because it wasn't just in the Maps app, but rather a notification. I disable notifications on most non-messaging apps because they're annoying and naggy.
- unlinked_dll 7y agoThe issue for me is that it would ask me to review places I didn't ask for directions to. It would notice I had gone through a drive through and ask me to review the restaurant. It would ask me to review a furniture store I walked past on my way to work. I don't want an app passively collecting data on me while I'm not using it.
- Symbiote 7y agoI felt it was significantly more creepy when I received "How is <tourist attraction>?" messages at home. I can see the building from my window, but I didn't like being told. I've had the location history disabled since it was possible to disable it, but I've since disabled all the notifications.