Get rid of the renewal nag notifications

Another annoying post in return for another annoying message.

Edit: Thanks bjm. I wasn't allowed to attach an image and I'd forgotten I could just insert them in the body.

I thought I was going to escape today but nope, four more days of annoyance to go. At least the rest of the seminars were free from the alerts.

Back on my main computer and the onslaught continues. Same four day reminder from yesterday with slightly different colours. We've gone from an orange alert icon to red. Surely that's worth a new notification. No options to remind me later on this one.

Same day for me, three hours after my most recent four day reminder, hey presto a three day reminder. Now that I'm documenting the lunacy, this is a ridiculous number of annoying notifications. No wonder it seemed overly intrusive.

...and on top of Norton's huge popups, we also have the more standard slightly less annoying Windows notifications.

No such luck! Barely two hours of peace before this annoyingly over-the-top-distracting notification.

Woohoo! Only two more days of this madness, two hours after my three day warning.

I'm guessing the subscription dates and times are not synced with the time zone. I've generally been getting two warnings per computer before lunch and then nothing for the day. The first warning is a repeat from the day before so the roll-over time between annoyances must be less than twenty four hours. The big red pop-up adverts are an exception to the rule and appear whenever it's most inconvenient.

Also of note, the two computers are not in sync so the alerts appear at different times.

Windows notifications are far less intrusive by design and can be turned off if preferred. These have been running full swing as well. Surely, that's enough?

Well I almost got through the rest of the day. I'm working late so it must be a timing thing. This is the third two-day notice I've had on this computer today. I'm guessing I won't get another one tomorrow morning.

My Notebook is leading the way this morning but it's so exciting. Just one day to go and I'm free for another year.

My release from nagsville is imminent. Woohoo!

To think, I'd almost forgotten. Yet another one day bright red in your face in front of whatever you were doing alert.

This is an excellent product with the exception of this one annoying feature. Please have some thoughts about fixing it.

In summary, 22 reminders in 7 days! This isn't counting all the Windows notifications as they can be turned off to respect the user's desires. That's an average of three per day. How much reminding do we need? If I wrote a little application to display pop-up adverts three times a day, I'm pretty sure Norton would flag it as malware.

Solutions

1. Allow us to turn them off.
2. Switch to Windows notifications. That is what they're for.
3. One reminder is fine as it lets us order a new license but allow us to select the interval thereafter, remind me again tomorrow, remind me again in seven days, don't remind me again
4. Honour the remaining time when entering a new license as you do with renewals
5. Make renewals cheaper than a new license
6. Switch vendors. We'll see what decisions are made in the next twelve months.

I'll be back the same time next next year to happily report they've fixed the issue.

Have a great year everyone.

I've been spared the pain for a whole week and then just a gentle reminder. Still no option for 'please don't remind me again'.

I'm looking forward to the final seven exciting days...

Lucky it was bright orange. I might have missed this advert jumping in front of every window.

Deja vu. It's a new day for me and they've doubled up on their nine more days. How does anyone accept a bright orange advert by a paid piece of software as acceptable behaviour. It's beyond me.

We're into the bright red can't miss you adverts. You get privileged access to my computer and I trust you. You've betrayed that trust and I think it's appalling behaviour on your part.

I'll repeat what I see as acceptable solutions from last year.

1. Allow us to turn them off.
2. Switch to Windows notifications. That is what they're for.
3. Allow us to select the interval, remind me again tomorrow, remind me again in seven days, don't remind me again
4. Honour the remaining time when entering a new license as you do with renewals
5. Make renewals cheaper than a new license
6. Switch vendors. We've seen what decisions were made in the previous twelve months.

Looks like I choose the last and least acceptable option.

I'm not going to see this out. They clearly annoy me enough to switch vendors, move on and part ways after many years together.

I'm stunned these adverts pop up on top of the active window.