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Signal keeps pestering me to allow access to contacts and to turn on notifications. There is no “No, I don’t want to” option. Only a “Not Now” option where the
by AnonC 4y ago
Signal keeps pestering me to allow access to contacts and to turn on notifications. There is no “No, I don’t want to” option. Only a “Not Now” option where the app will tell you “We’ll remind you later”. Within a few days, it will pester again. It has been this way for years, IIRC.
How such an obnoxious and intrusive set of features continues to exist baffles me. One would think that a self-proclaimed pro-privacy app would know to leave the user alone and to respect the user’s choice.
So no, Signal is not for everyone. Signal pretending to be for everyone is disingenuous.
- GlacierFox 4y agoWhat platform are you on? I use signal on android. I declined it access to my contacts on initial installation and it hasn't asked since.
- omniglottal 4y agoAll-or-nothing is not a sufficient replacement for this use case. Given access to contacts, it's the app's choice to not give the user a "never (for this contact)" option. This is a blatantly pricacy-disrespecting feature with no off switch. When announcing that a workaround works for you, you derail the conversation with disingenuity unless you're entertaining the notion that your workaround is not actually equivalent to a solution.
- GlacierFox 4y agoSorry, just got around to reading all that nonsense you wrote there. I'm not sure if you have problems with comprehension or something but you seem to have misread what I wrote. I simply asked what platform he was on as I don't actually have the same problem he seems to have. No workaround offered - simply curious as to why he was getting repeated notifications and I wasn't. You're a bit disingenuous in the way you seem to be handing out unwanted and unwarranted moral guidance based on simple questions people ask.
- drooopy 4y agoWhich platform are you using signal on? I'm on iOS (and also sync my chats on my MacBook) and I've only had to decline all of that only once.
- GlacierFox 4y agoI'm the same, I'm on android. It asked me once and hasn't asked since.
- AnonC 4y agoOn iOS and iPadOS. The pestering has been going on for a few years now.
- anonymousab 4y ago> There is no “No, I don’t want to” option. Only a “Not Now” option where the app will tell you “We’ll remind you later”. These kind of shenanigans are a good indicator of whether a product team is worth trusting or not, and whether they have any faith in their product decisions or not.
- KennyBlanken 4y agoAnd meanwhile they won't trust us enough with a sync function because general hand waving about how it could be abused.