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!

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    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.

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      6 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 😮‍💨

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        6 months ago

        Maybe Samsung removed it in favor of their own app pauser.

        This is what I see on a normal Pixel phone

        Personally I don’t have much issue with it, as I usually uninstall apps that my phone points out are going unused. In reality, I want zero apps and to just use the mobile web for everything but that’s not possible due to dark patterns.

        Cough Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Reddit cough cough