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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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Paid for MS Excel out of the goodness of my heart so now I get this popup every 2 hours... (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by _number8_@lemmy.world to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world

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[–] justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recently made the mistake of installing Avast, and it does the same annoying garbage. The actual settings are buried under a metric shit ton of "Did you know that...?" pop-ups that appear every single time no matter how often you select "do not show me this again", and it constantly urges you to buy the "premium" version for extra features that are literally useless to me.

And it was a pain to uninstall as well. Some files survived the official Avast uninstall AND separate uninstall from the Task Manager, and messed with the Windows Defender, which was unable to recieve updates for a while until I found and nuked the hidden residue of Avast.

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

Avast, avg, McAfee, Norton is all just garbage to try get you to pay.