Google intentionally degrades the user experience of their products to retain user data

I've often noticed that Google intentionally degrades the user experience of their apps in their hunger for user data.

Case in point, Google Voice.

1. There's no way to delete multiple messages from the Google voice app , you have to go into each message (https://imgur.com/a/Hq7iHAX)
2. When you go into a message thread, they make go to the overflow menu and confirm that you indeed want to delete a message. Yes, Google 'I understand' that the delete option indeed deletes the message(https://imgur.com/a/45SlAsM)
3. There's a delete confirmation dialog on every. single. delete. action. on. every. single. message. thread. (https://imgur.com/a/tdTeROy)

Similarly, the swipe action in Gmail is set to Archive for both swiping left and right, instead of one of the actions being set to Delete or Snooze.

Honestly, a lot of Google apps have idiotic UI decisions, well, unless the whole point is to not let users delete data easily, in which case, it works wonderfully.

I've been slowly moving away from Google apps to more usable alternatives.

What's your experience? Any other apps come to mind?

Submitted August 26, 2020 at 09:49PM by vortexmak https://ift.tt/2EA6wf1 https://ift.tt/eA8V8J