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So just long tap and uninstall them? It’s not analogous to the Windows Start Menu showing ads you can’t turn off. What are the nags? I also don’t use Apple TV
by zaroth 4y ago
So just long tap and uninstall them? It’s not analogous to the Windows Start Menu showing ads you can’t turn off.
What are the nags? I also don’t use Apple TV and don’t recall being nagged to use it.
The only thing that annoys me is the prompt to “finish setting up” my phone when I don’t want to turn on Siri. I get the prompt a few times and then it gives up trying to get me to turn on Siri and stays happily disabled.
- smoldesu 4y agoI mean, I can also click the little 'x' button on YouTube banner ads, but that doesn't make them any less annoying. Apple's promotion of their own services in MacOS makes it impossible to live in for me in the same way I can't browse the web without uBlock Origin. Blocking out nagware helps me focus.
- zaroth 4y agoI would totally agree but isn’t the uninstall a one time thing and then you never deal with again? If Apple News keeps advertising to you after you uninstall News then Apple has overstepped and should be held to account. I don’t hold it against them showing Apple News content on the Home Screen / Notification Tray iff Apple News is actually installed.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago>So just long tap and uninstall them? It’s not analogous to the Windows Start Menu showing ads you can’t turn off. On the contrary, it's exactly analogous to Windows start menu ads as they are just icons that you can tap/right-click and uninstall, exactly like on Apple. But I do love the HN double standards here: Apple ads: "Pfff, just tap and uninstall, nothing newsworthy here." Windows ads that you can also right-click and uninstall: "OMG, the audacity from Microsoft, let's up-vote every single FUD blog post about this while frothing at the mouth."
- zaroth 4y agoIf that’s the case for Windows ads (I don’t actually know) then I totally agree the response is highly overblown there too!