News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on 2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse. Parent comment

Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse by badwolf on Thursday December 14, 2017 @12:48PM (#15924450)
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" ...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse by freehunter on Thursday December 14, 2017 @03:11PM (#15926476)
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.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:2017 Was Bad for Facebook. 2018 Will Be Worse by wils124 on Thursday December 14, 2017 @01:59PM (#15925584)
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.
[ Parent | on HN ]