• acido@feddit.it
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    9 hours ago

    there are countless apps that do the exact same thing and they have been out there for many, many years.

    I haven’t seen them changing anything.

    EDIT: also google knows this very well and the feature is clearly designed to be as useless as possible and to be ignored by 99% of the users.

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      5 hours ago

      The feature is harder to turn off than traditional app timers, too, many of which can simply be ignored. Instead, Pause Point requires a phone restart to turn it off, Google says, which also makes you think before disabling it.

      Is that a common feature of third-party apps? I don’t recall hearing about that before, when reading about these types of apps.

      • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today
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        4 minutes ago

        If I knew about that beforehand, I’d probably be much less likely turn it on to begin with. If I learned the hard way, I’d likely be dissuaded from ever trying it again & just get one of those other apps. Conversely, the fact that my current phone boots much faster than older ones did makes it not really as off-putting an issue at it once was. It sounds like a major PITA until you realize that.