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It's not that strange, it's just a dark pattern. But it does touch on a specific problem with permissions interfaces.

If you have an interface that looks like "requestPermissions(...)" or something like that and have a case where users can reject permissions forever without nags, then how do you handle users who inadvertently deny permissions forever? One solution is to just nag forever, if you can.

Another workaround is to enable permissions manually through settings, but you need to make errors loud and obvious with workaround instructions and people interpret the issue as a bug in your code rather than a feature of the platform.

This is a problem on MacOS, just as an example.



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