Comment by miki123211
1 day ago
It's not just the captchas either, the "this GPS app needs access to your location" or "this photo taking app wants access to your camera" style pop-ups don't help either.
If you learn once that clicking "deny" in a notification pop-up means your phone doesn't ring when your grandson calls you on Whats App, you won't be clicking "Deny" in those pop ups any more.
I genuinely don't know how to solve that problem, and I definitely see non-technical family members struggle with it.
The silly thing is, it was known before all these permission pop-ups were created that users will simply press "Yes", "OK", "Allow", "Agree", etc., on every dialogue they see simply in order to get rid of it. Many people -maybe even most people? - just see them as needlessly getting in the way of where they actually want to be.
So, given that we knew that, why the hell did we create more?
Because there’s no good alternatives IMO.
Auto-deny leads to a lot of unexpected and broken behavior, and most users aren’t going to know where to go to enable that type of stuff.
But auto-enable is even worse: because malicious actors can get permissions they shouldn’t. In fact, even with mainstream applications, most of the permissions they ask for they don’t need to operate - they’re just used for tracking and data exfiltration.
So ask every time has been the solution and it works okay. iOS actually does a good job with this. For suspicious permissions, such as accurate location data all the time, it periodically re-prompts. It’s annoying, but it can catch a lot of suspect behavior. There’s shockingly little apps that need your exact location when the app isn’t open.