Comment by VBprogrammer
2 months ago
A little bit off topic but our company recently enforced Microsoft Authenticator for account login. Which I was mildly annoyed about but now I'm super pissed off because they have started abusing the notification permission granted to allow authenticator to work to push out ads for Microsoft 365. It feels like we've gone back to 90s Microsoft when everyone hated them.
Textbook permission abuse. Microsoft blurred the line between security notifications (approve/deny prompts) and marketing. Once users stop trusting notifications from your app, you've lost the channel entirely. Self-defeating strategy.