Permission prompts are impossible to answer, structurally.
- Permission prompts are impossible to answer, structurally.
- It seems like a technical decision: "Do you trust this entity with X technical ability."
- In many cases, users don't have a good mental model of what precisely that entails.
- But even if they did, the "Do you trust this entity" is doing an absurd amount of work.
- Maybe you trust them now but not if they get bought by private equity in five years.
- Permission dialogs require you to make an open-ended trust decision in an entity.