Personally I was pissed by another popup I do not want. To each his own.
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Mate, it's one popup shown one time, to inform those not as technically competent as you and I that they can in fact use another browser if they want to...
I'm fine with well-placed and important popups, yet I can appreciate the point:
Too many annoying popups have trained me to, by default, react to popups as I react to flies or mosquitos.
As I can't tell which category a popup is in before I've read it, this makes me extra angry about the time-wasters.
This popup is shown immediately after "Hello" message after updating your iphone. Together with other popups asking for agreement to collect app usage stats and other apple related questions. I hear no one complaining or being pissed off about these other questions after first phone use.
I’ve heard loads of people complain about them. Asking for Siri to be switched on, and asking to sign into your iCloud account are the two biggest ones.
Personally, I find the multi-page terms and conditions to be the worst part. Nobody reads them and it would be considered entirely unacceptable UX if people really did read them. Their entire purpose is to hold people to terms they aren’t aware of.
Yes but, at least in the EU, there are strong consumer protections around what can and cannot be considered "usual" in TaC texts - the courts already gave credence to the idea that while people may not sensibly read the terms in full, there is an expectation that the contents cannot be too whacky when dealing with B2C such as apple.
Pissed. Let’s be honest: you dismissed the one-time useful question and instantly forgot about it.
We’ve probably become numb to it thanks to cookie warnings.
Whatever the intentions of that law where, and however against the spirit of it the companies implementing the ‘we care about your privacy’ popover whilst offering the option to opt out of data sharing with their 500 ‘partners’ - the law has failed in this regard. Perhaps even all these sites are breaking said law, in which case I am sure enforcement will be swift and firm.
I would not compare it to cookie popup, as this is a question that you get after starting using a phone. So basically one time. For new user it looks just like regular startup sequence after unboxing fresh device.
Of course if i was evil corporate drone and would like to piss of EU and had means for that, i would show this pop up to choose browser regularly and unexpectedly to piss off end users and then blame it on EU that they have "forced" to do this.