Comment by swiley
5 years ago
> I don’t want any websites sending me any notifications ever.
> I don’t want any websites triggering the browser to ask me if they can send me notifications
That’s fine for you but some of us who are in niche communities or have weird applications don’t want to wait for a VC to fund the development of a native app.
Right now I can’t get notifications from IRC at all which pushes me and everyone else to centralized chat services. This has distorted the evolution of the internet and I would argue has contributed heavily to the “fake news” problem.
> It seems to me like you believe everyone is the same as you
You’re projecting. We want a feature that the user can disable, not ever being able to use this at all means everyone has to want the same things you do.
I clearly outline how “a feature the user can disable” is the same as “a gdpr/cookie/telemetry/etc prompt the user can reject”
It doesn’t take a VC to make an app, I made some starting in HS (with push, yes), and you can too. Be the change you wish to see.
>I clearly outline how “a feature the user can disable” is the same as “a gdpr/cookie/telemetry/etc prompt the user can reject”
You're clearly wrong then. iOS already does something similar with location and doesn't suffer from this problem.
>It doesn’t take a VC to make an app, I made some starting in HS (with push, yes), and you can too. Be the change you wish to see.
That's actually kind of upsetting. On my other machines I do fix problems. The cost of volunteering to deal with apple's shitty phone is an overpriced machine where even the old used desktops are more expensive than the modern one I just built, the time it takes to learn a new language and an (IMO pretty crap) environment (GUI toolkit not withstanding,) the time it takes to maintain an app for a platform with constant API churn, and $100 a year for a developer license (nope, you can't use push notifications without paying this.)
Here's the change I want to see: people abandoning an abusive company. I'm buying a pinephone so that the next time I have a problem I can deal with it without having to buy the beater car equivalent of a computer (and spending as much.)