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Maybe later... how about never, you fucks? (lemmy.ml)
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It is endlessly frustrating that companies have universally decided that they won't let people say "no" to stuff, ever. There are no longer options to reject stupid-ass new "features", only postponement until next time you open the app/website/program. They'll continue pestering you for the rest of your life. I realize that my frustration may be a little over-zealous, but we deal with these interfaces dozens of times per day and this is user hostile behavior. There isn't really an option to just use another service or program, since the entire technology landscape has been commandeered by a few major corporations, and they all enact the same shitty things as a group.

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[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 year ago

I don't think that you're being overzealous. Far from that - even the phrasing rubs me the wrong way; it conveys "you're something fooling itself that it has a choice. You don't - you aren't a rational human being, you're a user. Do as you're being ordered to. The continued pestering adds "You'll be bossed around until you learn to obey." to the insult.

On a lighter side I agree with Grouchy that you have options. I think that we should start giving those companies the middle finger. And frankly I think that we're better off doing so for other reasons - the data vultures love this sort of "non-confrontational on surface, but bossy upon analysis" discourse.

[-] Sinnerman@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

the data vultures love this sort of “non-confrontational on surface, but bossy upon analysis” discourse.

We need a simple name for this, like we have for enshittification or shrinkflation.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

It's a subset of dark patterns.

[-] Sinnerman@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Yes! It's a dark pattern microagression.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Perhaps "donkey taming"? Donkeys are often associated with stupidity, but they're actually rather smart... and stubborn, they don't do what you want them to do unless you're really insistent, and slowly lead them the way that you want. What those businesses are doing with users is the same.

[-] dom@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Consumer manipulation?

Corporate badgering?

[-] Sinnerman@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Hmmm... maybe something involving "false dichotomy", "Sysyphus", "pestering", "options", "forced politeness", ...

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Illusion of choice.

[-] waspentalive@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Dark Pattern

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