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Comment by bartread

13 days ago

We have a number of Ring devices and are overall happy with them but your 12 menus deep comment is on the money.

Even workaday settings for devices are scattered haphazardly hither and thither through the many pages of their app’s interface and I regularly find myself having to Google for the location of settings.

It’s crying out for, at least, some sort of smart search box.

So “hard to find” for something like this is practically guaranteed.

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noisy_boy  13 days ago

I think there is an untapped market for providing "simplified" interface to important settings (e.g. privacy/security related) of various apps. Sort of a user-friendly settings-api for other apps' settings.

  • beezlebroxxxxxx  13 days ago

    One of the best plugins I have in my browser automatically works through those cookie banners to select the least invasive option. The speed and way that it simplifies the process is fantastic.

    • tempnew  13 days ago

      But if everyone used that, wouldn’t it just encourage websites to get even more sleazy with those infernal cookie menus because instead of a human being forced to click through “performance cookies” vs. “cookies for ad targeting” vs. “cookies you really need” vs. “cookies you probably want” vs. “cookies that seem like the opposite thing to what they actually are” dark pattern web designs, your extension is hiding that burden (and sleaziness) from you.

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