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Maybe but the vast majority of people have zero issues with malware and don't really care about the perceived advantage of privacy (just Apple marketing because

by seec 3y ago

Maybe but the vast majority of people have zero issues with malware and don't really care about the perceived advantage of privacy (just Apple marketing because they can't sell ads, if they could they wouldn't give a shit). I take care of Android devices used by elderly people, and they have just zero issues. Not anymore than they would have with iOS. All this is nonsense talk trying to help the indefensible position of Apple. Most people also use Windows computers with no monopolistic app store and even though sometimes they are problems they almost always come from user errors. Most of the time it's poor choices, generally from greedy behavior (trying to get stuff for free without knowing much). If a user doesn't know what it's doing, it can ask someone for help or stick with Apple's App Store if that suits him. Allowing other possibilities for more competent people doesn't change this fact one bit.

LtWorf 3y ago
my mother has thousands of notifications from the browser, from all the websites that request permission to show them. Her phones become really slow because of this.
- seec 3y ago
  Late reply, but that is definitely "user error"; and the iPhone will exhibit the same problem if you allow any random app notifications access. There are plenty of bad actors, even on iOS. For example, even Uber Eats will target you with ads if you dare allow all permissions for notifications just to get orders tracking... In fact, their notification system makes it complicated to just allow specific behavior and not something else. It's not better than the notification settings in typical web apps. As a day one user of iOS, I find it funny that you complain about notification out of all things, because if there is one place where iOS is just as fucked as every other platform it's notifications... Nowadays I have resorted to basically denying notification for everything but the few stuff where they are actually relevant... Also, you should correctly set things up for your mother and refuse notification prompt for every website and just whitelist the few that might be usefull..

by seec 3y ago

LtWorf 3y ago

my mother has thousands of notifications from the browser, from all the websites that request permission to show them. Her phones become really slow because of this.

seec 3y ago
Late reply, but that is definitely "user error"; and the iPhone will exhibit the same problem if you allow any random app notifications access. There are plenty of bad actors, even on iOS. For example, even Uber Eats will target you with ads if you dare allow all permissions for notifications just to get orders tracking... In fact, their notification system makes it complicated to just allow specific behavior and not something else. It's not better than the notification settings in typical web apps. As a day one user of iOS, I find it funny that you complain about notification out of all things, because if there is one place where iOS is just as fucked as every other platform it's notifications... Nowadays I have resorted to basically denying notification for everything but the few stuff where they are actually relevant... Also, you should correctly set things up for your mother and refuse notification prompt for every website and just whitelist the few that might be usefull..