Marketing should always be OPT-IN by default, but these extra steps to opt out is truly asshole design.

Oh, and on the opt-out confirmation screen, you get two options: Yes or No. The button colour for “yes” is white, and the “no” button matches the “save” button on the previous screen, so it’s easy to accidentally cancel the opt-out. Double-asshole design!

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    It’s like when you try to stop Android autodeleting app data for all my apps when I don’t use them in 3 months (I have plenty of storage, and I don’t want this stuff gone if I lose internet). You have to click on Settings > Apps > All apps, and for each app, click on it, scroll down, toggle the ‘delete all app data after 3 months of inactivity’ button, go back, repeat for all ~150 apps, remember to do this whenever I install/reinstall an app, and sometimes the settings just seems to randomly revert and I find my app data has been deleted, and then I need to manually check each app again, because Google didn’t consider that people might want to turn this ‘feature’ of for every app at once, or at least have a list of toggles, rather than having to go into the app settings for each app.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      That’s awful! Is it stock android? I’m not seeing the option on my Samsung phone, but I’m also on Android 12 😮‍💨

      • CheezyWeezle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I’m honestly not sure what they are talking about, I’m on Android 14 on my s23 and that isn’t a feature, nor has it ever been on any android phone I’ve ever had or seen. There is an option to remove permissions for apps that have not been used, but not to delete all storage for an app after an amount of time.

        • Showroom7561@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Interesting. I’ve only ever owned a lower end Motorola android phone, and it only had minimal tweaks to vanilla android. But I’ve never heard of this feature on other phones, so I wonder if it’s a Motorola feature/tweak and not and Android one.

          It wouldn’t make it any better, since that sounds like a terrible feature to have automatically enabled!