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Bluesky is not a true alternative. Just recently there were news about them banning opposition accounts in Turkey.

Right. And then we see comments like the one that started this thread: “whoa, there was a Pocket integration??”

For this whole spring have I clicked hundeds of times that I’m aware that my trial is ending

This is… not quite related to the topic, no? Trial ending warning is not a “hey, here’s a new feature you might want to try out”.

They also introduced a new feature that they promote on a space that takes literally half the screen

Could you elaborate? I used to use Edge as my daily driver, now it’s my secondary browser. I have no clue what you mean here.

In a world without dark design patterns, there would be a single pop-up when you first install the application, to ask if you want notifications and/or suggestions for new features

This is exactly how it works in things like Office or Edge.

If you click “no”, it should never bother you again unless you go into a menu and opt in

Yup. Or unless a new feature is introduced, in which case a new pop-up appears. That’s precisely how it works.

Ideally, that pop-up wouldn’t even exist. They could just have a collective “don’t bother me again” checkbox on every non-essential notification

Edge, most of the time, just opens a new tab with “Your Edge was updated” and a list of new things.

If your user has already indicated that they are not interested, any further pestering is essentially harassment.

If it was about the same feature that you already dismissed - yeah, I get the sentiment. If it’s about completely new things - it’s a really weird thing to say. How are users supposed to know that something new was introduced? Sift through thousands of lines of changelogs…?

The difference is in convenience.

On the one hand, you can add a page to your bookmarks, after choosing the correct folder, of course.

On the other hand, you can click a button and a page gets automatically saved in your “read later” storage, with a description, summary, and a preview of the content.

On Firefox? I’ve used it for years and this is the first time I hear of Pocket

And then people get all pissy when Google or Microsoft show a pop-up of a new feature…