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this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2024
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WHY THE FUCK WOULD SOMEONE WILLINGLY OPT IN?!
Cause they're going to show a pop-up that advertises some "cool new feature", and the 99% of users who aren't tech literate will say yes and never think about it again.
People on this site severely overestimate how much the average person cares and their overall level of tech.
Yup. Average user doesn’t know what pop or imap is and can’t use their tv remote to change an input.
People will be deceived into opting in via some UI anti pattern like they do with the online user accounts and onedrive now.
Because they'll add it to the list of coercively and deceptively worded questions they force you to answer before you can use a WIndows account, phrase it so as to sound useful and harmless, and have a big friendly "Sounds great!" button and a tiny "No thanks, I prefer my life to be shit" link.