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> You want to make sure users aren’t stressing about making some final un-revokable decision before they even use the app

It has never come across that way as an end user. As it has always been on some terrible change or option where the answer should be "no, now bugger off forever", I have viewed "not now" as the same as "ask me again later":

an explicit thumb in the eye and statement by the software developers that they think their mandate takes priority over my preferences and that I am not qualified to make decisions about the software I run.

It is a very easy way to maximize my disdain for a developer/team/org.

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The IMDB app's constant "enable notifications? yes/not now" is what got me to pay a subscription to a competing app. You can't even tap yes, then go and disable the notifications in system settings; the app checks and immediately starts nagging again.

What a contemptible practice.

What boils my blood and made me use it less:

Google Maps' navigation feature absolutely FORCING their alternative "better" route when I have REPEATEDLY chosen otherwise.

  > I am not qualified to make decisions about the software I run.

You, anonymousab, might be qualified. But the proverbial you which includes Joe Public most certainly is not.

Yes, they are, by definition as the owner of the device.

Amen, 'not now' is belittling no matter the users experience level. The idea that I or anyone would be 'stressed' by an app settings update is absurd, hard to believe anyone believes it. Am I also supposedly 'stressed' by not wanting to review your app on the app store? Those 'not now' pop up review suggestions are the worst offenders here, and impossible to justify from any perspective.

This attitude is patronizing and malicious. It's the same logic that allows the Supreme Court to revoke women's autonomy about what's happening inside their own body.

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