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I suppose it's more for people trapped in abusive relationships

by stingo1 2mo ago

infinite_spin 2mo ago
yeah, this is like calling 911 and ordering a pizza, the goal is for a victim of abuse to hide their intentions from their abuser
- ghostpepper 2mo ago
  I believe this is also why 911 doesn't show up in iOS/Android call logs
  - staplers 2mo ago
    That and they dont want butt dialing 911 to be easy
    - sublinear 2mo ago
      Quickly press the power button 5 times if you have an android phone and see what happens. This has got to be the absolutely worst idea ever and it's enabled by default!
      - OJFord 2mo ago
        It asks you in first-time set up if you want it. 'Yes' might be the default selected option, but it's not like opting out requires you knowing about it and going looking for it.
        sublinear 2mo ago
        Do you really have faith this would be disabled by choice if you tried it on a random android phone? If they haven't already disabled it in rage after finding it on accident, I'm pretty sure that person would be terrified upon you making them aware. The first-time setup process isn't consistent across devices and never will be. You can try to argue this down and reason about it all you want, but it's still a bad default regardless of how it's presented to the user. It's also bad design because it conflicts with similar defaults such as the shortcut to open the camera (press power button twice), silencing an incoming call (press once), etc. People may also press multiple times when the phone seems unresponsive. You'd expect the resurgence of bad defaults to be motivated by marketing or something, but this one is just outright stupidity. There's a part of me that is fairly convinced this was added as an afterthought after much internal whining by someone at google with a checklist insisting that android must support some easily accessible emergency feature. This was then deliberately chosen to make the feature look bad, and the users are victims of office politics.
        OJFord 2mo ago
        I don't know, I'm just saying that's how I know about it, seeing it in setup and disabling it. I've no particular interest or stake in 'arguing it down and reasoning about it'.

I suppose it's more for people trapped in abusive relationships

by stingo1 2mo ago

I suppose it's more for people trapped in abusive relationships

yeah, this is like calling 911 and ordering a pizza, the goal is for a victim of abuse to hide their intentions from their abuser

ghostpepper 2mo ago
I believe this is also why 911 doesn't show up in iOS/Android call logs
- staplers 2mo ago
  That and they dont want butt dialing 911 to be easy
  - sublinear 2mo ago
    Quickly press the power button 5 times if you have an android phone and see what happens. This has got to be the absolutely worst idea ever and it's enabled by default!
    - OJFord 2mo ago
      It asks you in first-time set up if you want it. 'Yes' might be the default selected option, but it's not like opting out requires you knowing about it and going looking for it.
      - sublinear 2mo ago
        Do you really have faith this would be disabled by choice if you tried it on a random android phone? If they haven't already disabled it in rage after finding it on accident, I'm pretty sure that person would be terrified upon you making them aware. The first-time setup process isn't consistent across devices and never will be. You can try to argue this down and reason about it all you want, but it's still a bad default regardless of how it's presented to the user. It's also bad design because it conflicts with similar defaults such as the shortcut to open the camera (press power button twice), silencing an incoming call (press once), etc. People may also press multiple times when the phone seems unresponsive. You'd expect the resurgence of bad defaults to be motivated by marketing or something, but this one is just outright stupidity. There's a part of me that is fairly convinced this was added as an afterthought after much internal whining by someone at google with a checklist insisting that android must support some easily accessible emergency feature. This was then deliberately chosen to make the feature look bad, and the users are victims of office politics.
        OJFord 2mo ago
        I don't know, I'm just saying that's how I know about it, seeing it in setup and disabling it. I've no particular interest or stake in 'arguing it down and reasoning about it'.