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Privacy settings
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2018–2023), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Privacy settings, 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 5 complaints
- Privacy toggles are never defaulted the way users would want, so they must be fixed by hand2023-01-19
- Save button looks disabled, so user can't tell how to save2020-05-15
- Privacy controls overloaded into one tab, hard to find and manage2019-10-10
- Privacy permissions are hidden away and protected by dark UI patterns2019-08-28
- Too many granular privacy prompts; users get confused and break sharing2018-10-24