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Hey y'all, today I experienced another push for Linux from our friend Microsoft. 5 minutes ago, I wanted to use the timer app on Windows, so I could manage my work/break schedule, and this fucker showed up. Yes, that's a prompt to sign in with a Microsoft account to use the clock. If you close it, it pops up 30s later. Clicking “Don't sign in” or closing the process responsible for displaying it is useless, and guess what… IT PAUSES THE TIMER WHEN IT SHOWS UP.

I guess this is another thing added to the super long list of things which will eventually make me switch my main workstation to Linux once win10 is discontinued.

/endrant

Hope y'all are having a great day :3

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[–] Anticorp 62 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

If you close it, it pops up 30s later.

This is by far the most annoying development in software and website design to ever occur. You can’t say no to stuff anymore. If you say no, they nag you again very very soon, and they will continue nagging you until you accidentally click yes. After you’ve clicked yes, they make it damned near impossible to change that selection. Dark patterns were outlawed years ago, yet somehow nagware is legal? Fuck the person who thought this up with a spiked baseball bat.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Minor correction: You can't say no because they intentionally almost never give you "no" as an option. It generally is "Ask again later" instead, when you clearly never want them to ask again, just like you didn't want to be asked the first time.

[–] Anticorp 7 points 4 weeks ago

Yes, that’s what I’m talking about.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Oh boy are you going to love-to-hate this then. It's best viewed on a proper computer, but you'll get the gist on mobile too.

[–] Anticorp 5 points 4 weeks ago

Ha! Thanks for sharing that. I got a real laugh out of it. It starts off pretty tame and just gets worse and worse until it’s completely unusable. As a former blogger, I’m very familiar with some of the shit that money driven bloggers pulled. I always avoided anything other than non-intrusive ads and still made a living off of it, which really goes to show that usually the webmaster is just an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I know I'm getting wildly off-topic just three comments deep in this thread, but comedy that warps into existential horror is a genre that I've recently discovered I love but probably never would have expected to be my kind of thing. This video is one of my favorites.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That was actually pretty creative, hopefully my Actual Snake Oil™ arrives soon.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There is a carrier app on my phone that cannot be uninstalled without root. I guess all phones have that, even if you don't have a contract, which I don't. I disabled roaming, went to another country, and it started to randomly show pop-ups asking me to turn on roaming and activate the international plan. There is an ok and cancel button, and it can pop up right under my fingers while I am typing something. That is pure evil.

[–] Anticorp 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I haven’t experienced this with a Pixel nor an iPhone. I buy straight from Google and Apple though, because I don’t want the bloatware that carriers install. Did you buy from the carrier? Is it a Samsung? They do all kinds of crappy things with their TouchUI.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Apparently the app is actually called Sim toolkit and it is built into the Android OS. I didn't even give it permission to send notifications.

[–] Anticorp 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I just got an iPhone yesterday, so I checked the iPhone and my Pixel Pro and I don’t have that app on either OS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Really interesting. Probably country specific. Thanks for checking.

[–] Anticorp 1 points 3 weeks ago

NP. Good luck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I did not buy from the carrier. It's a OnePlus 9 Pro.

In all my phones so far, a carrier app like this is automatically installed after I boot the phone for the first time with a sim card. Going all the way back to my first android phone.

[–] Anticorp 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe that’s a country or carrier specific thing? I don’t have that on my phone, not with T-Mobile nor Verizon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can you see a system app called "SIM Toolkit"?

[–] Anticorp 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] 800XL 4 points 4 weeks ago

Nagware has been around since the 80s and it was just as annoying then even without this bloated corporate hellscape we call the internet 🙁