Comment 379 for bug 332945

Devs, please provide information on this, what is the current status? Is there any talk whatsoever of getting rid of the popup/popunder?

Is there any proper method for us users to request the removal of popups/popunders? Is there any hope at all of getting this fixed?

MPT, I think you are purposely being a little misleading and purposely missing the point about the popups. You keep mentioning the "click the button, what button" thing. It isn't even the issue. The issue is the popup/popunder. Fix the notification area, do whatever you have to do, just don't start programs without the user initiating it. It is never a good idea. Please if you can provide some insight on why this was thought to be a good idea, please let us know... it may change our opinion and/or we may not see the big picture. What are we missing that devs think they have the right to interrupt the user? As I see it even security updates don't warrant that level of "right now" interruption.

I have actually had users get confused wondering what they did to cause it to start up. I'm tired of explaining it to everyone. I install a LARGE number of Ubuntu machines. These popups are driving users crazy and they are driving me crazy.

If the unsupported hack goes away in future versions, the popups/popunders are enough of an annoyance to actually be forced to REMOVE update-notifier or update-manager altogether.

Blogs are popping up all over the place with top ten lists of programs to install and things to do. The hack is the first thing on almost all of them. Are the devs taking notice of this?

NO ONE is expected to make good decisions all the time. Everyone thinks this decision was a stinker.