{"id":197,"date":"2009-11-04T23:21:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T06:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdhive.org\/glob\/?p=197"},"modified":"2012-05-24T22:42:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T05:42:46","slug":"the-bad-kind-of-forcing-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"The bad kind of forcing function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <em>really<\/em> irritates me:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/irritant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/irritant.jpg\" alt=\"irritant\" width=\"355\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The version I have works fine, and since I generally don&#8217;t trust Apple I really don&#8217;t want a new version. But the &#8220;Do not ask me again&#8221; checkbox only takes effect if you perform the &#8220;accept&#8221; action on the dialog, and the only way to do that is to download the new version. And I assume if I do that, in future it will always grab new versions without asking me since I told it not to ask me again.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Do not ask&#8221; checkbox has no effect if you press Cancel or close the dialog, which means I&#8217;ll be irritated by this thing on a regular basis. It&#8217;s an evil plot to try to exhaust non-upgrading people into submission! I very much doubt this is a design accident; Apple has a significant interest in getting people to take new versions since it&#8217;s how they impose new rights restrictions on their users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This really irritates me: The version I have works fine, and since I generally don&#8217;t trust Apple I really don&#8217;t want a new version. But the &#8220;Do not ask me again&#8221; checkbox only takes effect if you perform the &#8220;accept&#8221; action on the dialog, and the only way to do that is to download the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}