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Asking the user sucks. All it does is train users to click yes without thinking about it because they just want to get on with their life. (See: The ubiquitous
by TylerE 4y ago
Asking the user sucks. All it does is train users to click yes without thinking about it because they just want to get on with their life. (See: The ubiquitous GDPR cookie prompts).
ANY "solution" that puts more burden on the user isn't.
- easton 4y agoThey do it for location access, calendar access, notification access, and clipboard access for every app. Access to shared containers shouldn’t be a common occurrence outside of once when the app is set up.
- tekknik 4y agoYou didn’t disprove what your parent said. People still just tap yes on them. I ran an experiment and put little snitch on my wife’s laptop. She just clicked “accept” every time it popped up without question.
- thirdsun 4y agoWell, I'd love it if the GDPR consent prompts were anything like Apple's privacy prompts. The problem with consent prompts on websites is that they are rarely in compliance with the GDPR.
- tekknik 4y agoThe industry will always find ways around regulation. And what we’re left with is a confusing set of spaghetti laws.
- petre 4y agoThey could just ask once for defaults not every time and have a per app dialog where the user could tweak the permissions, like browsers do. For instance I have almost everything blocked in the browser: camera, location etc.