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Tired of opening maps and getting a prompt to turn on 'make location bettter' every fuckingtime. Are the people working at Google that dumb? How many times do I

by ffpip 6y ago

Tired of opening maps and getting a prompt to turn on 'make location bettter' every fuckingtime. Are the people working at Google that dumb? How many times do I have to decline. Other than that, the article is one of the most clickbaity one I've read

prower 6y ago
I suspect the "alright I accept just stop it!" approach is part of the design.
- stinos 6y ago
  Almost definitely so. Like Youtube telling my epxerience will be 'better' if I login, each time again. But it won't (well, apart from me not to having to click the button each time). How low can you go as a company?
  - izacus 6y ago
    Way way lower if you actually look at ISPs and media outlets like Vice. Did you see the amount of tracker shit that side loads up? They spray your private data not only to Google, but tens of other companies as well.
  - teekert 6y ago
    My annoyance gets bigger and bigger and I see myself more and more often saying, never mind! And being left with a bad feeling. Soon I will just stop clicking yt links and find alternatives.
    - stinos 6y ago
      saying, never mind! Can always try to look for ways around first. Invidition (Firefox plugin to make use of Invidious automatically when seeing Youtube links) worked ok-ish for a while for me, lately less so.
  - bonoboTP 6y ago
    I'm sure that (anti-)feature improved the relevant metrics, and someone got a great evaluation or promotion for it.
- swebs 6y ago
  The James Bond method of acquiring consent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RRhhewFqyw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RRhhewFqyw
MisterTea 6y ago
What really got me mad was when these jerks tied saved places to enabling location history. I used google maps as a sort of address book starring the homes of friends, family, work locations, interesting places, etc. One day I turned off all the tracking and location history crap and had zero issues. Then one day I couldn't see any of my saved locations. What? I did some research and found out that a recent update now requires you to enable location history. WTF! Their brain damaged logic is the location you saved was done in the past so it stands to reason that it's part of history! Of course that's not really the reason, the reason is to force people to turn location history back on. Bullet, meet foot.

by ffpip 6y ago

prower 6y ago

I suspect the "alright I accept just stop it!" approach is part of the design.

stinos 6y ago
Almost definitely so. Like Youtube telling my epxerience will be 'better' if I login, each time again. But it won't (well, apart from me not to having to click the button each time). How low can you go as a company?
- izacus 6y ago
  Way way lower if you actually look at ISPs and media outlets like Vice. Did you see the amount of tracker shit that side loads up? They spray your private data not only to Google, but tens of other companies as well.
- teekert 6y ago
  My annoyance gets bigger and bigger and I see myself more and more often saying, never mind! And being left with a bad feeling. Soon I will just stop clicking yt links and find alternatives.
  - stinos 6y ago
    saying, never mind! Can always try to look for ways around first. Invidition (Firefox plugin to make use of Invidious automatically when seeing Youtube links) worked ok-ish for a while for me, lately less so.
- bonoboTP 6y ago
  I'm sure that (anti-)feature improved the relevant metrics, and someone got a great evaluation or promotion for it.
swebs 6y ago
The James Bond method of acquiring consent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RRhhewFqyw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RRhhewFqyw

MisterTea 6y ago

What really got me mad was when these jerks tied saved places to enabling location history. I used google maps as a sort of address book starring the homes of friends, family, work locations, interesting places, etc. One day I turned off all the tracking and location history crap and had zero issues. Then one day I couldn't see any of my saved locations. What? I did some research and found out that a recent update now requires you to enable location history. WTF! Their brain damaged logic is the location you saved was done in the past so it stands to reason that it's part of history! Of course that's not really the reason, the reason is to force people to turn location history back on. Bullet, meet foot.