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Great. Take their phone number and text them. Amazon charges what, $0.00645 per SMS?

by diebeforei485 6y ago

genericstorage3 6y ago
What a terrible ux
- millstone 6y ago
  Why? Text messages are great because they pop up on my Mac too.
  - katbyte 6y ago
    This - email and text notifications go everywhere for me. Web ones don’t follow what device I’m using
yunohn 6y ago
You want to send potentially sensitive health updates over SMS? Or just a link, that then opens the web-app anyways? Definitely sounds like bad UX.
- Google234 6y ago
  CVS has no problem sending text notifications. You can send informative alerts without any sensitive info. Push notifications are subject to the same HIPPA rules as sms. You can’t included sensitive info.
  - yunohn 6y ago
    Push notifications go through apple/google servers. The advantage of PWA notifications is that they can be local - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Re-engageable_Notifications_Push https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web....
    - Google234 6y ago
      You don’t get it, 100s of billion of these notifications have been shown already to users on desktop with a less than 1% accept rate. These are spam .
      - endless1234 6y ago
        What a weird argument. We're not talking about suspicious blogospam sites asking for notification access here. By the same token, most email sent is spam. Should we stop using email? Spammy notification requests should be mitigated with better browser guards for requesting them. The fact that there is spam does not somehow invalidate that there are legitimate use cases people want them for.
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        katbyte 6y ago
        If 99% of something is used by spam and not opened it makes a strong argument to remove said feature.
- diebeforei485 6y ago
  Here in California, I got updates about my covid19 test results, and my covid19 appointment information, over SMS or a link over SMS. This includes what vaccine I received, the lot number of its production, plus information from v-safe[1] and reminders to check in telling the government how I feel on days after the vaccine. 1. https://vsafe.cdc.gov/en/ https://vsafe.cdc.gov/en/

Great. Take their phone number and text them. Amazon charges what, $0.00645 per SMS?

genericstorage3 6y ago

What a terrible ux

millstone 6y ago
Why? Text messages are great because they pop up on my Mac too.
- katbyte 6y ago
  This - email and text notifications go everywhere for me. Web ones don’t follow what device I’m using

yunohn 6y ago

You want to send potentially sensitive health updates over SMS? Or just a link, that then opens the web-app anyways? Definitely sounds like bad UX.

Google234 6y ago
CVS has no problem sending text notifications. You can send informative alerts without any sensitive info. Push notifications are subject to the same HIPPA rules as sms. You can’t included sensitive info.
- yunohn 6y ago
  Push notifications go through apple/google servers. The advantage of PWA notifications is that they can be local - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Re-engageable_Notifications_Push https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web....
  - Google234 6y ago
    You don’t get it, 100s of billion of these notifications have been shown already to users on desktop with a less than 1% accept rate. These are spam .
    - endless1234 6y ago
      What a weird argument. We're not talking about suspicious blogospam sites asking for notification access here. By the same token, most email sent is spam. Should we stop using email? Spammy notification requests should be mitigated with better browser guards for requesting them. The fact that there is spam does not somehow invalidate that there are legitimate use cases people want them for.
      - deleted 6y ago
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      - katbyte 6y ago
        If 99% of something is used by spam and not opened it makes a strong argument to remove said feature.
diebeforei485 6y ago
Here in California, I got updates about my covid19 test results, and my covid19 appointment information, over SMS or a link over SMS. This includes what vaccine I received, the lot number of its production, plus information from v-safe[1] and reminders to check in telling the government how I feel on days after the vaccine. 1. https://vsafe.cdc.gov/en/ https://vsafe.cdc.gov/en/