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As an Android user, it'd be nice if replying "No" to "Do you want RCS?" meant "Never ask me again" and wasn't just interpreted as "ask me again in next week and

As an Android user, it'd be nice if replying "No" to "Do you want RCS?" meant "Never ask me again" and wasn't just interpreted as "ask me again in next week and every week thereafter".

solardev 3y ago
Pssst... you sure you don't want RCS? All your cool blue bubble friends are using it now!
- atonse 3y ago
  What? Are you saying this in jest? Then I'm missing the humor because this is completely false...
  - solardev 3y ago
    Yes :/ Like Android might soon use ios compatibility as a reason to further annoy you about changing protocols
cesarb 3y ago
> and wasn't just interpreted as "ask me again in next week and every week thereafter". It gets even worse; last week, on a relative's phone, after weeks of clicking "not now" it just force-enabled RCS, and displayed something like a "we automatically enabled RCS for you, here's what you should do if you want to disable it again" (completely confusing said non-technical relative). Needless to say, I quickly went into the settings and disabled it again; I just hope that it having been enabled for a few minutes doesn't mean it will no longer be able to receive messages from RCS users (like the rumors I heard many years ago of people who enabled iMessage and later changed back to Android no longer receiving any SMS from iMessage users).
dcgudeman 3y ago
why don't you want RCS?
- qingcharles 3y ago
  A lot of people I know can't afford a data plan for their phones, so when RCS becomes enabled it just bounces all their incoming/outgoing messages and it is sometimes days or weeks before they realize.
  - cesarb 3y ago
    And even for those who can afford a data plan for their phones, they might have gone over their data allowance for the current month, so the data won't work until it refreshes at the start of the next monthly cycle. And obviously, having one more thing using data makes it even easier to go over the limit.
- ralferoo 3y ago
  For me, SMS is solely for receiving 2FA codes and sending message to my provider to check how much data allowance I have left for the month. I use Whatsapp for messages to people.
- zacte 3y ago
  Companies have already begun using RCS as an opportunity to flood my phone with ads that take up way too much space in the notification shade. Also not from the US, so I can just use a 3rd party app
tredre3 3y ago
Yup it's completely disingenuous on Google's part. Some people don't have data but Google doesn't care, they force clueless users to enable RCS anyway and then they're on their own to figure out why they don't receive messages anymore!
- runlevel1 3y ago
  There's no feedback that a message was undeliverable?
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As an Android user, it'd be nice if replying "No" to "Do you want RCS?" meant "Never ask me again" and wasn't just interpreted as "ask me again in next week and every week thereafter".

solardev 3y ago

Pssst... you sure you don't want RCS? All your cool blue bubble friends are using it now!

atonse 3y ago
What? Are you saying this in jest? Then I'm missing the humor because this is completely false...
- solardev 3y ago
  Yes :/ Like Android might soon use ios compatibility as a reason to further annoy you about changing protocols

cesarb 3y ago

> and wasn't just interpreted as "ask me again in next week and every week thereafter". It gets even worse; last week, on a relative's phone, after weeks of clicking "not now" it just force-enabled RCS, and displayed something like a "we automatically enabled RCS for you, here's what you should do if you want to disable it again" (completely confusing said non-technical relative). Needless to say, I quickly went into the settings and disabled it again; I just hope that it having been enabled for a few minutes doesn't mean it will no longer be able to receive messages from RCS users (like the rumors I heard many years ago of people who enabled iMessage and later changed back to Android no longer receiving any SMS from iMessage users).

dcgudeman 3y ago

why don't you want RCS?

qingcharles 3y ago
A lot of people I know can't afford a data plan for their phones, so when RCS becomes enabled it just bounces all their incoming/outgoing messages and it is sometimes days or weeks before they realize.
- cesarb 3y ago
  And even for those who can afford a data plan for their phones, they might have gone over their data allowance for the current month, so the data won't work until it refreshes at the start of the next monthly cycle. And obviously, having one more thing using data makes it even easier to go over the limit.
ralferoo 3y ago
For me, SMS is solely for receiving 2FA codes and sending message to my provider to check how much data allowance I have left for the month. I use Whatsapp for messages to people.
zacte 3y ago
Companies have already begun using RCS as an opportunity to flood my phone with ads that take up way too much space in the notification shade. Also not from the US, so I can just use a 3rd party app

tredre3 3y ago

Yup it's completely disingenuous on Google's part. Some people don't have data but Google doesn't care, they force clueless users to enable RCS anyway and then they're on their own to figure out why they don't receive messages anymore!

runlevel1 3y ago
There's no feedback that a message was undeliverable?

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