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I bought a Nissan this year. I paired my phone and granted access to contacts, but not messages. Every time I turn it on it shows a popup asking to grant access
by figassis 3y ago
I bought a Nissan this year. I paired my phone and granted access to contacts, but not messages. Every time I turn it on it shows a popup asking to grant access to my phone's messages. I decline each time, and each time it comes back. It's like they build these products with complete disregard for user choice. "We don't care that they decline, show it again until they submit". I've been a developer of products that do this, and it's never a bug, it's always intentional. You mention to the product manager how this is undesirable behavior, and sometimes even implement it in a choice respecting way, but are quickly overridden and asked to correct.
- figassis 3y agoAnother variation of this is the popup that only has "accept" and "remind me later buttons". It's even worse when it happens in work applications. Zoho does this. You open Zoho books, the accounting SaaS, and every X days after login, they show you a full page notice about some product/feature with options to "accept" and "remind me later". Imagine this in the middle of you rushing to create an invoice. I'm a paying customer, so I send them an email complaining and they ask me to send them a screenshot of the exact notice. I'm currently looking for alternatives.
- solarkraft 3y agoOh boy, this makes me think differently of Zoho. I previously had a rather favorable image of them, now that image is quite a bit worse. Companies should be shamed for this and the reputational damage should far outweigh whatever little gain figuratively spitting in the user's face would have.
- TheHappyOddish 3y agoAnything that has a "yes/later" instead of a "yes/no" goes on my list of things to remove from my life when practical. I promise this bullshit from any company will lose you at least me.