Re:Telegram publishes users' locations online
by wruza on Monday January 04, 2021 @11:08PM
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Which dark patterns exactly?
I didn’t know that the described functionality even exists, and it is off on my phone. TG is one of the apps that implements 0 dark patterns, imo.
By comparison, whatsapp regularily tries to cloud-ize me by making a backup and re-enter my personal data. I just tap “never”, “done” once a month, but it is annoying af when it happens at the incoming call. It also forced users to enter a status (but there was a bug that allowed to enter empty one). And if you have a sim-less device, it is such pita to install it there. No updates will be available, ofc.
I didn’t know that the described functionality even exists, and it is off on my phone. TG is one of the apps that implements 0 dark patterns, imo.
By comparison, whatsapp regularily tries to cloud-ize me by making a backup and re-enter my personal data. I just tap “never”, “done” once a month, but it is annoying af when it happens at the incoming call. It also forced users to enter a status (but there was a bug that allowed to enter empty one). And if you have a sim-less device, it is such pita to install it there. No updates will be available, ofc.