Most tech these days, and especially most software and operating systems, are guilty of persistent sealioning.
Good tools don't sealion their owners.
@cstross I think the point is that if you ask "Do you want an upsell/AI/unnecessary feature?" enough times, the user will eventually accidentally press the wrong button and "consent" to whatever it is.
Happened to me last week. Opened the photos app on my phone because I needed to find a pic I took of a sign I urgently needed to ask an airport staffer about, and accidentally clicked the "Yes, store all my photos on your cloud" dialog I'd declined 5,000 times before.
@pluralistic @cstross I fucking hate that I have done this a few times. They ask every time when you say no, but only once if you say yes, and clawing any of it back is at best difficult, arguably impossible.
@Oggie @pluralistic Yeah, but you can at least see the business model at work there ("store photos in the cloud" = "pay us rent for cloud storage") and there *is* a tenuous value proposition ("make it easy to share photos with other cloud-connected devices"). Whereas the AI-with-everything is transparently a grift. And most of the sealioning devices are pitching for permission to do something you didn't buy them for (your smart fridge wants to subscribe to the weather channel).
@cstross
Well I don't have slack on my mobile (it seems to be a bit resistant to installing in to my work shelter), and my desktop app does not nag, but it would be pointless, I am authorized to do buying decisions for the company, and we literally have an explicit default no using of AI based products without explicit management permission policy.
And I would assume that this aspect (not having buying power) is common for most slack users. So why nag them?
@Oggie @pluralistic