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Apple permission prompts
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2012–2022), in 8 threads.
People raised many different problems with Apple permission prompts, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 8 complaints
- Keeps having to dismiss repeated subscription ads with 'no thank you'2022-02-04
- Users must click through many permission prompts they don't understand, so they approve things unsafely2021-11-15
- Too many permission dialogs frustrate users and lead them to blanket-accept everything2019-08-27
- Users are strongarmed into accepting location sharing via refusal to run or dark patterns2018-05-09
- Small, hidden agree button makes accidental sharing of face data easy2017-12-04
- Update popups keep appearing and are annoying enough to block servers2016-12-06
- Popup reappears on every website visit, which is annoying2016-02-09
- Asked to re-enter password many times in one game session2012-08-16