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While Google may or may not refrain from putting ads in their wallet app due to this incident, the aggressive ways that they use to get me to use the wallet app

While Google may or may not refrain from putting ads in their wallet app due to this incident, the aggressive ways that they use to get me to use the wallet app have been off putting enough. Every now and then, there is a full-screen popup on my phone that wants to onboard me into the wallet app. The only options I have are "yes" or "later". Clearly a company that operates on the principle of "If the user doesn't want to, let's just nag them to death until they give up" is not to be trusted.

ryandrake 1y ago
To be fair, the “Yes, Maybe Later” pattern can be seen throughout Silicon Valley. Tech companies, by and large, cannot accept “No” from users.
- netsharc 1y ago
  What I learned about consent I learned from megacorps...
- avhception 1y ago
  You're right, and I have seen this pattern elsewhere. Especially on Windows systems (I, personally, switched to Linux decades ago). So Google is definitely not alone here. But, as already mentioned in the original article, the wallet is an especially sensitive area.
lozenge 1y ago
Have you tried going to "App Info" and "Disable" for Wallet?
aucisson_masque 1y ago
I love these choices, yes or yes later. They do the same on my windows computer, ever time I open edge and every time I open a new tab ! This is the kind of behavior I wouldn’t even tolerate in real life, they are really taking us for sheeps.
- loloquwowndueo 1y ago
  Using windows and tolerating it’s crap is a choice, my dude. Linux and MacOS are right there.
  - makeitdouble 1y ago
    Windows' sins are the utter lack of elegance and outright hostility to the generic users. And I understand those trigger visceral reactions for many. Yet macos' polish and elegance just hide different issues, in particular the utter lack of flexibility (Apple's way or the highway) and expecting to solve most issues by throwing money at it (want 3D perfs ? just buy another computer) I personally couldn't understand why I'd keep paying for both a macbook and an ipad just to have a "real" computer and a touch screen. Microsoft made the Surface Pro a decade ago now.
    - loloquwowndueo 1y ago
      You can have a non-Mac computer with a non-Microsoft OS. Like I said - choices, choices. All choices have downsides for sure.

ryandrake 1y ago

To be fair, the “Yes, Maybe Later” pattern can be seen throughout Silicon Valley. Tech companies, by and large, cannot accept “No” from users.

netsharc 1y ago
What I learned about consent I learned from megacorps...
avhception 1y ago
You're right, and I have seen this pattern elsewhere. Especially on Windows systems (I, personally, switched to Linux decades ago). So Google is definitely not alone here. But, as already mentioned in the original article, the wallet is an especially sensitive area.

lozenge 1y ago

Have you tried going to "App Info" and "Disable" for Wallet?

aucisson_masque 1y ago

I love these choices, yes or yes later. They do the same on my windows computer, ever time I open edge and every time I open a new tab ! This is the kind of behavior I wouldn’t even tolerate in real life, they are really taking us for sheeps.

loloquwowndueo 1y ago
Using windows and tolerating it’s crap is a choice, my dude. Linux and MacOS are right there.
- makeitdouble 1y ago
  Windows' sins are the utter lack of elegance and outright hostility to the generic users. And I understand those trigger visceral reactions for many. Yet macos' polish and elegance just hide different issues, in particular the utter lack of flexibility (Apple's way or the highway) and expecting to solve most issues by throwing money at it (want 3D perfs ? just buy another computer) I personally couldn't understand why I'd keep paying for both a macbook and an ipad just to have a "real" computer and a touch screen. Microsoft made the Surface Pro a decade ago now.
  - loloquwowndueo 1y ago
    You can have a non-Mac computer with a non-Microsoft OS. Like I said - choices, choices. All choices have downsides for sure.