Please stop asking me to provide feedback #8036
26 comments
·November 6, 2025SoftTalker
Also, and to generalize:
Stop asking me about accepting cookies.
Stop asking me to subscribe to your email list
Stop asking me to review my last purchase.
Stop telling me I need to subscribe to view this content.
Stop asking for my phone number
Stop asking for my income
If I want to do or tell you any of these things I will initiate that myself.
fallinghawks
My garbage disposal service sends me a survey once or twice a year asking if I would recommend them to my friends.
Where I live, garbage disposal is a county contract. You get get whatever company your county has engaged. Do they think people would to move to another county for better garbage disposal?
rkomorn
You forgot about websites wanting you to enable desktop notifications. That's always a nice one.
czhu12
I believe the first one at least is mandated by law.
zzo38computer
Only if you use cookies; I think not everyone will need to use cookies. I think if you use cookies to login, then only the login form should hopefully need to mention the cookies. (However, there are better ways to do user authentication, such as basic HTTP auth or X.509 auth; neither of which requires cookies.)
Bjartr
No. What's mandated by law is to not track users for reasons not core to delivering your service OR disclose that you are doing so.
redwall_hp
The opposite: it's mandated that you not do data collection and tracking for reasons except those essential for the company to provide the product or service, absent informed consent. (And this is purely for tracking: cookies used for maintaining preferences or other state are fine.)
The banners are a fig leaf for behavior that violates the spirit of the GDPR, creating an aggravation where the simplest way to dismiss them is by agreeing.
Any site that doesn't offer a button to reject the tracking (with no more stops than angreeing) and still function as expected without the tracking, is in violation of the law.
chaps
I read their comments as knowing that.
Imagine a world where you don't need to click on anything because cookies are no longer being used for large scale tracking.
h1fra
you don't have to ask for cookies if you don't use them
iso1631
I find it interesting how even if I accept cookies many sites still continue to ask
mrguyorama
The other day, NewRelic insisted on full screen pop up dialogs prompting me for some form of feedback for I'm not even sure what.
Multiple times within a few minutes
During a damn incident I was trying to deal with
I left critical feedback. I wish someone would see it and feel ashamed, but it is rather clear that there haven't been decision makers in our industry capable of shame in many years.
kgwxd
Ok... How was your call quality? -Teams
throwaway2027
You're the human feedback in the RLHF part of Reinforcement learning human feedback. You're also their paypig for their $200 Max plan which you also get limited on. You're also their free advertisement, keep at it. I can't wait for the open-source alternatives to catch up if ever.
mystraline
I already got that up and running.
Vscodium, and Claude replacement. And its abliterated to boot, so no censorship and garbage.
antipaul
"To permanently turn off the feedback survey for yourself, set `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_FEEDBACK_SURVEY=1`"
Per recent comment from Anthropic at https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/8036#issuec...
nszceta
There is already ~/.claude/settings.json
What is going on over there at Anthropic?
nojs
This nag often comes up at the very beginning of a session, before you could realistically evaluate whatever A/B test they’re running with any accuracy. I hope they’re not taking the data too seriously.
timenotwasted
Despite what they say in that GH comment that it was reduced by 10x my anecdata is that it has been hyper-aggressive in the last few days. I had it popup twice during a single context window session. It makes me feel like they are really concerned about model regressions and in turn their lack of confidence makes me really not confident about what's going on behind the scenes.
lokar
No current employee of a corporation can promise that data collected today will not in the future be used for any particular purpose. It's simply not up to them, and companies change massively over time.
Get it in an air-tight legal agreement with some kind of audit provision, actual enforcement and penalties, or don't give out data you care about.
astrange
> No current employee of a corporation can promise that data collected today will not in the future be used for any particular purpose.
Yes they can, because data privacy laws forbid collecting data for one purpose and then using it for new ones without notice or consent.
jzb
This means that, possibly, I can sue if my data is misused: it does not prevent its misuse. It doesn’t offer any protection if the law changes, or any real protection against constant TOS changes, etc.
o11c
That would be meaningful if there were ever any enforcement.
null
I've definitely responded with prompts for feedback with "Stop nagging me for feedback all the time. I just want to (do what the app is for) without interruption."
It's kind of shocking how some people just don't get how insanely insulting it is for an application to constantly ask for feedback.