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I am so tired of the constant pop-up notifications by Norton. I do select "Don't show me again" and I still get the same notifications over and over. They also have increased recently to several pop-ups a day. Please give us an option to turn this off!! I am seriously considering cancelling my subscription over this!
Posted: 23-Feb-2022 | 7:58AM · Permalink
Curious, do you have Special Offer Notifications On or Off?
https://community.norton.com/en/comment/8522073#comment-8522073
Posted: 05-Mar-2022 | 11:13AM · Permalink
I agree that this is a problem. Norton self-promotion level is way too high and annoyingly persistent.
I've been trying to prevent Norton from using my screen as their advertising white board for years. I turned OFF the Special Offer Notifications a year ago and product notices still keep coming to the lower right hand screen. Even after turning off the notice in the pop up.
I'm on a chat session with support today and now they say to remove, download and reinstall the product. Turning off Special Offers is a simple administrative choice. Why should I have to delete, download and reinstall the product get an admin setting to work? I have several systems that use Norton. Am I to delete, download and reinstall on all these systems to keep Norton advertising at bay?
Another problem is Norton adding a desktop shortcut every time the product upgrades. Norton automatically comes up at start up. Why does it need a shortcut on the desktop? Increase top of mind awareness? It does, but not in a good way.
In protest to Norton's self-promotion, I subscribed to Avast anti-tracker, even though Norton has a similar product. This sense of entitlement to my screen and attention exist to generate revenue. Norton needs to understand that violating the 'no ad zone' has revenue consequences.
Posted: 05-Mar-2022 | 11:36AM · Edited: 05-Mar-2022 | 11:38AM · Permalink
Annoying features are really product bugs:Another problem is Norton adding a desktop shortcut every time the product upgrades. Norton automatically comes up at start up. Why does it need a shortcut on the desktop?
bjm_:
I don't have a problem with Norton desktop shortcut.
So, I was curious...what you've tried.
Posted: 08-Mar-2022 | 1:11PM · Permalink
I contacted Norton Support and was told there was no way to turn off the process that places a shortcut on the Windows desktop when Norton pushes an update.
I read the thread and will try moving the desktop to the Recycle Bin, if this works it will reduce the number of times I have to delete the shortcut following push updates.
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