Re:Gmail really wants me to say yes
by francescovv on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @02:34AM
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OP touches on a slightly tangential topic:
This is kind of meta because I’ve turned this
autocomplete feature off, I’m sure of it.
Did I just do it on my phone? Did my wifi
blip so the AJAX didn’t work? I certainly
didn’t turn it on.
This strike home hard for me, as a pervasive problem. So many tech companies conveniently "forget" about user preferences all the time.
For example, on my kobo e-reader, I'm positive I've disabled auto-update. And yet, one day few weeks ago it auto-updated and the new version stopped displaying side-loaded .epub files (from project Guttenberg). No rollback, no appeal. Seller's 2-year warranty has recently expired. Now essentially I have a modestly expensive semi-brick that will only let me read two titles purchased via kobo store, and nothing else
Re:Gmail really wants me to say yes
by tomglynch on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:25AM
(#19978697)
I have an issue with something similar. I often get emails from email lists where I'm pretty sure I have previously unsubscribed. But I can never be sure if I actually did and they're ignoring it, or if I unsubscribed from something else.
For example, on my kobo e-reader, I'm positive I've disabled auto-update. And yet, one day few weeks ago it auto-updated and the new version stopped displaying side-loaded .epub files (from project Guttenberg). No rollback, no appeal. Seller's 2-year warranty has recently expired. Now essentially I have a modestly expensive semi-brick that will only let me read two titles purchased via kobo store, and nothing else