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More like, the house guest is a sweet talker who cajoles you into letting them stay every time despite them not doing much for you in return. Let’s not pretend
by selestify 6y ago
More like, the house guest is a sweet talker who cajoles you into letting them stay every time despite them not doing much for you in return.
Let’s not pretend like technology isn’t vigorously A/B testing its way into being as psychologically addicting as possible.
- modeless 6y agoTo me this analogy just underscores the absurdity of blaming the houseguest for this situation.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoWhy? It's not as if you spontaneously invited the house guest. Your guest arranged it so that you met them, then over time manipulated you into believing they would be a good company. Only thus conditioned, you agreed to have him over. And that's why I consider most advertising a malicious act.
- Swizec 6y agoLike a vampire, needs to be invited in, won’t leave. Only solution is to aggressively deny all push notification requests
- SOLAR_FIELDS 6y agoAs an example of how this can be used maliciously I will put forth Grubhub. Anytime you request a delivery, they ask for push notifications, ostensibly such that they can alert you to the status of your delivery. But then they start to push advertisements after. Not directly after, mind you, but a week or two or even more after you got your delivery. One cat-and-mouse solution here might be the “know your location” notifier that iOS uses - allow push notifications only for today.
- agumonkey 6y agoAnd sweet gas-lighting guest clones are on every corner, so you get accustomed to this new reality.