great new spotify feature: when someone sends you a link to a song, it includes a tracking parameter that associates the two of you. when you open the link, instead of going to the song, it goes to your "spotify messages inbox" where you can see your past "conversation" with the person (i.e. every time they've sent you a link with that tracking ID), but does not actually play the song. to play the song, you need to open it from the messaging inbox. when you try to do that, you are invited to join spotify messages. you can dismiss the dialogue, but then the song won't play. you have to join spotify messages to open the song.
Lynnesbian
in reply to Lynnesbian • • •the ingenuity is remarkable. instead of creating a feature that people want to use, you can co-opt an existing popular feature (being able to share a link to a song) and tie its functioning to the unwanted feature.
PROBLEM: nobody wants to use microsoft outlook to read their gmail/yahoo mail/whatever.
SOLUTION: whenever someone else forwards an email from their outlook client to you, instead of forwarding the email, outlook should forward an "email preview". to view the full message, the recipient can simply install outlook and sign in with their email provider.
Lynnesbian
in reply to Lynnesbian • • •see, this is a joke, and microsoft, famous for their understanding of user consent, would never do something like this.
as a completely unrelated thought,
PROBLEM: nobody wants to give microsoft access to every single email they have ever sent, received, or drafted.
SOLUTION: whenever someone signs in to outlook with a non-microsoft account, simply copy their entire inbox to the outlook servers to "enhance [the user's] Microsoft 365 experience".
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