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victorz@lemmy.world 2 months agoInstalled Neo Store. It’s a joke IMO, for one single reason.
The app starts up and asks me for two permissions. “The app works better without battery optimizations.” Alright? I’m not willing to sacrifice battery life for random app updates. I’ll check for updates manually, and regularly, thank you.
And: “Please allow notifications if you want notifications.” No.
If I want neither of those, there’s no way to proceed. I press the back button, it closes the app.
Fastest uninstall ever. 😐
With a lacking thought process like that, I don’t trust the store at all because the devs clearly don’t have a lot of forethought.
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
So…a repo manager asks to notify you of updates, and check for them in the background…and that requires an essay long screed?
FYI I have battery optimizations enabled, and notifications disabled. App works great.
metaldream@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Neither of those permissions should be required for an app store. If someone wants to check for updates manually they should be able to do that.
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Required means not optional… which both are…
Also, it’s not unusual for a repo manager to request the ability to check for background updates, or send notifications…which again, are both optional.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You reply with an eSsAy sCoLdInG mE about this, and you give “no shits”?
lol ok. What a Reddit reply.
I’m just saying, sure, I bet I could enable the things it asks for and then turn them off and it’d work as I want it to, but if you design the shit like this, it’s an instant turn-off for me. Like what else in the code is as shit as the very start of the UX? Other repo apps don’t force these things on me so why should I accept this app to? I could, but I won’t.