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Re: Slide to Unlock

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Post by schmorptron » Thu, Jun 01, 2023, 5:57 AM UTC

PebblesRox wrote: post #111

_yb2s wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The next version: When you touch an item in a photo you automatically buy it. There is supposedly a way to see that this is happening and cancel it, but that part of the interface isn't intuitive and attempts to cancel more often result in additional purchases. This cannot be turned off, and the new phone can't be used in the first place until you set up credit card billing. It also seems to trigger "automatically" a…

It's already bad enough that my toddler can order photo canvases of a picture of himself getting ketchup out of the fridge via the Google Photos app. (He even chose expedited shipping . . . to our old address!) Fortunately we got a refund from customer service the first time. The second time, I saw the email soon enough to cancel within the 2 hour deadline. (This was after removing all our payment info from the phone…

I wouldve just had them change the shipping address, that sort of album / canvas is the stuff you as parents will be cackling over for decades to come :D

Re: Slide to Unlock

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Post by keyle » Thu, Jun 01, 2023, 5:57 AM UTC

Lovey. The witness meets Twister, turns into a hack and slash horror game.

Re: Slide to Unlock

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Post by xp84 » Thu, Jun 01, 2023, 5:58 AM UTC

fsckboy wrote: post #120

propter_hoc wrote: post #24

Made it to 3 fingers and then couldn't advance as my phone interpreted a 3 finger swipe as a screenshot. I'm counting it as a win since I learned a new feature of my phone!

quit at 2 fingers because, why am i doing this? (i've actually commented before on HN about my dislike of all the sliders in the iOS UI, what an annoyingly difficult specialized skill to have to say up on just to hit what should be very fast and simple radio buttons or checkboxes)

The slider-style switches are dumb eye candy, I agree, but you don’t have to treat them as such, they toggle when tapped.

My big annoyance is how these massive balls of JavaScript and images and crap have infected UIs of web apps everywhere, as though people couldn’t understand a checkbox or something. Silly “UI designer” fad, and quite pathetic for a designer really, to just copy whatever Apple did.

Re: Slide to Unlock

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Post by borgchick » Thu, Jun 01, 2023, 5:59 AM UTC

aflag wrote: post #83

I wish there was a save button

i think it does, i accidentally locked my phone, when i went back, did a refresh, and it loaded the last game after an initial "slide to unlock" screen

Re: Slide to Unlock

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Post by dhosek » Thu, Jun 01, 2023, 6:08 AM UTC

Phelinofist wrote: post #73

This helped me to find out that my Huawei phone had "AI Touch" enabled. That apparently is a feature to touch any image with two fingers and the super smart AI finds out what is shown in the picture and where to buy it. Goes without saying that I immediately disabled this. /shrug

At some point, the reverse image search on Google started doing this, which was really annoying. Although I kind of would like it to see if I can find a replacement for a pendant lamp that I accidentally broke one of the glass cylinders that surround the light bulbs on, but I can’t find any photos of the non-broken light fixture.

Re: Slide to Unlock

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Post by attilaberczik » Thu, Jun 01, 2023, 6:08 AM UTC

I was thinking, could this be used as a CAPTCHA system? I mean the easier versions, up to 2 fingers

Re: Slide to Unlock

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Post by bheadmaster » Thu, Jun 01, 2023, 6:11 AM UTC

kristopolous wrote: post #151

PebblesRox wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's already bad enough that my toddler can order photo canvases of a picture of himself getting ketchup out of the fridge via the Google Photos app. (He even chose expedited shipping . . . to our old address!) Fortunately we got a refund from customer service the first time. The second time, I saw the email soon enough to cancel within the 2 hour deadline. (This was after removing all our payment info from the phone…

I'm a big believer that toddlers are a large contribution to behavior analytics and dictate modern design by analytics. They're the ones that will click on ads and "browse" a site. They interact in a much richer way than I do. I've often heard that a sites most "active" users seem to be women in their mid 30s. That's because those stats include the woman and the toddlers she hands the phones to. I've been frequently…

> I'm a big believer that toddlers are a large contribution to behavior analytics and dictate modern design by analytics.

Holy shit, you just blew my mind. This explains so much of the mainstream internet's degeneration into a family-friendly dumbed-down version of it.

The dangers of having big corporations raising a new generation of people (instead of their parents doing it) are even more concerning. I bet that's the exact reason we are moving towards a woke authoritorian dystopia.

Re: Slide to Unlock

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Post by benatkin » Thu, Jun 01, 2023, 6:25 AM UTC

I like the game but I don't like how it says Slide To Unlock on every page, so a ragequit after a few of them.

Re: Slide to Unlock

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Post by wodenokoto » Thu, Jun 01, 2023, 6:49 AM UTC

Speaking of slide to unlock, does anyone know why accepting app installs require double clicking the lock-button instead of sliding?

Re: Slide to Unlock

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Post by 3v1n0 » Thu, Jun 01, 2023, 6:58 AM UTC

Basically yoga for your fingers!

Very cool... Unless it doesn't remeber your stage, and so... I cried when I swiped out the Firefox tab by mistake.

Edit: it does remeber, just need to slide once