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Comment by netsharc | Hacker News Reader

The "fuck you, user!" behavior of software companies now means there's no more "No", only "Maybe later". Every time I update Google Photos, it shows me the screen that "Photos backups are not turned on! Turn on now?" (because they want to upsell their paid storage space option).

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It also now bugs me to do face scanning every so often too

And unlike most things, both prompts require you to explicitly click some sort of "no", not just click away to dismiss. The backup one is particularly obnoxious because you have to flip a shitty little slider as the only button is "continue". Fuck. Off.

The lack of a true “no” option and only “maybe later” infuriates me.

Silicon Valley companies are like a creepy guy in the nightclub going up to each woman and asking "Want to dance? [Yes] or [Ask Me Again]". The desperation is pathetic.

I mean at this point I think it's really just utter incompetence over at Microsoft to design a system that can be updated without breaking it. They have never actually cared about solving that problem.

If they had taste, someone opinionated over there would knock heads before shipping another version of windows that requires restarts or mutates user settings.

A joke in the Windows 95 days was "You plugged in a mouse. Please restart your computer.". A few weeks ago I plugged in a Logitech wireless mouse receiver, Windows 10 installed the drivers automatically, and finished with "To complete the installation of the software, please restart your computer"...

It's already absurd that a mouse should need a vendor/model-specific driver in 2025. It's just a standard USB Human Interface Device ffs.

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