#Stop popups for corel products update
What I suspect is happening here is that Corel is running a background process or daemon to phone-home and prompt the user when there is an update or in this case a new advertisement they'd like us to see and it gets installed along with the software that I actually wanted and paid for. In fact, I had never run the app, I only installed it. Well my first response to that is that I wasn't running the app. Had I not been able to turn it off, I would have demanded a refund. I thought, "Really? Okay, where can I turn this off?" Didn't take long to find it in the settings. This one isn't bad, but the very first one I saw was a push to purchase Painter, or something. I just upgraded from Toast 18 to 20 (I almost never purchase every sequential upgrade for this app), and the first thing that hits your eye is an advertisement - within the software you just paid for! It is really slimy and disgusting behavior from such an old and well known company that has been making software for Apple products as long as I can remember (back into the 1980s I think).Īgreed. The OS isn't sentient and has no idea what the app is doing. Since the OS can't know what you do and don't want displayed, and you are choosing to run the app, it allows the app to do whatever it's written to do. It's possible because an app you're running displays the ads. However that still begs the question why this sort of thing is even possible in MacOS and is Apple doing anything to prevent companies from doing this in the future.