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> For many applications, a user is forced to register for application access. You want to know who the user is so you can provide them with individualized funct
by LoganDark 3y ago
> For many applications, a user is forced to register for application access. You want to know who the user is so you can provide them with individualized functionality and data.
> If your registration process requires an email or mobile phone number, registration allows you to market to your customers. This is great if you are pursuing a Product-led growth or freemium business model. Having contact information allows you to communicate with them directly, allowing you to remind them of the value of your application and driving re-engagement.
Ugh, this article is discusting. I can't bear to read the rest. "Having contact information allows you to communicate with them directly, allowing you to remind them of the value of your application" please no. No.
Definitely super grateful for Firefox Relay right about now.
- JohnFen 3y agoYep. And the ad industry has been greatly encouraging applications and websites to have user accounts specifically as a way to work around the decreased ability to track people. It's why I've adopted the policy of not signing up for accounts with anything unless the application or service is one I literally can't do without. Fortunately, the number of things that qualify as genuinely mandatory is within a rounding error of zero.
- tough 3y agoHow do you approach this for travel booking. Like does it really matter if you get an account or not, when you're already providing all your PII for the ticket? Asking because I'm wondering if I need a -checkout as guest- thing or not...
- JohnFen 3y agoI never make an account anymore for things like travel booking. My experience has been that signing up for an account will result in a lot more spam than checking out as guest.
- tough 3y agoOK, will have in mind to provide such a escape hatch to privacy conscious customers, but a company doing this right would just enable you to disable all subscriptions... Adversarial thinking works for today's fucked up world but leaves those honest not even able to try in such a paradigm
- JohnFen 3y agoMy assumption is that signing up results in more spam even though the company has my email address either way because the act of signing up puts me in a demographic that tends to respond better to unsolicited emails -- so the company makes more from selling my data when I've made an account. But it's only an assumption. > Adversarial thinking works for today's fucked up world but leaves those honest not even able to try in such a paradigm Indeed, and this is a real problem I've encountered in my own business ventures. It doesn't take that many people to pee in the pool before others start getting hesitant about swimming. But we have to find a way to operate in the world as it exists, not as we wish it exists.
- LoganDark 3y agodisgusting*. Noticed the typo just now and can't edit. Oops.