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by mrweasel 3882 days ago
I just fear that it will quickly become something that users just click "Okay" on automatically. A little like "Share your location". The minute something doesn't work as expected because the user didn't share a bit of information people will start just clicking on the "Ok" button.
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And of course the "no" button is labelled "Later". And there is no option to mute it forever. Google Play is trying to make me enter my mobile phone number on every single app update. Android is trying to let me scan all apps for security each time I use F-Droid. Those dialogs always appear and I can only discard them again and again until one day I might accidentally click "OK". Google is evil.
Even worse:

http://i.imgur.com/qsRdwaU.png

Google...

What is the name of this dark pattern? It is very well executed by Google in Android these days.
> what is the name of this dark pattern

"Hobson's Choice"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson%27s_choice