Every time I open the Snapchat Android app it prompts me with a Snapchat-styled (not the system) dialog to share my contacts. Every time I hit "Don't allow". Every time it prompts me again.
This is an inexcusable dark pattern. Two things need to happen:
1. The operating system needs to provide a "screw you, never" option for any permissions.
2. We as engineers need to say "screw you, never" to requests to implement behavior like this. Sure, this could be a bug, but I see the same behavior with Venmo and location access.
Personally I'm rather disillusioned with where we've found ourselves. This sort of adversarial relationship in which people are property of a platform and treated as such is winning.
Edit: Venmo had been set to "Only while using the app" and was prompting to enable location services on the device, not for permission. That's my own fault.
This is an inexcusable dark pattern. Two things need to happen:
1. The operating system needs to provide a "screw you, never" option for any permissions.
2. We as engineers need to say "screw you, never" to requests to implement behavior like this. Sure, this could be a bug, but I see the same behavior with Venmo and location access.
Personally I'm rather disillusioned with where we've found ourselves. This sort of adversarial relationship in which people are property of a platform and treated as such is winning.
Edit: Venmo had been set to "Only while using the app" and was prompting to enable location services on the device, not for permission. That's my own fault.