Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse
by conductr on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:31AM
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Only my opinion but, Facebook will find a way around this. An easy strategy will be to annoy the users enough that they opt-in. For example, want to post a pic? It's seamless if you are opted-in, but your not, so click through these 10 screens while we explain why you should opt-in. Every time you post a pic, you have to view 10 screens. Most people will just opt-in. They won't quit the service or deal with the annoyances, they'll just opt-in.
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Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse
by badwolf on Thursday December 14, 2017 @12:48PM
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They do the same if you don't enable push notifications in Messenger. Every time you open the app, "Won't you just let us send push notifications?" open a chat, "ENABLE PUSH NOTIFICATIONS NOW!" open another chat "You haven't enabled push notifications yet" ...
Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse
by freehunter on Thursday December 14, 2017 @03:11PM
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Reddit does the same thing. If you go to their mobile site, occasionally it blocks you and says "you really should download our app". And every update to the site makes more and more frustrating to use the mobile website.
I don't want your app. The site works fine until you broke it.
Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse
by wils124 on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:59PM
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WhatsApp has a better image on this kind of stuff, but I’ve found it to be even more obnoxious when it comes to nagging you to enable push notifications.
Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse
by freehunter on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:37AM
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You may be right. Facebook does a similar thing with ads, if you run a page/business, they heavily restrict who is going to see your posts. Unless, of course, you pay Facebook to display your posts as ads. Then everyone will see them... depending on how much you pay.