Mac Vs PC commercials - Cancel or Allow?
MacVsPCcommercialsCited 3× on HN, 2020–2026
comedy · general · 2020–2026 on HN
A short clip parodying Windows Vista's cancel-or-allow security prompts, in the style of Apple's Mac vs PC ads.
HN mentions it as a joke when Apple's own security prompts or Gatekeeper restrictions annoy users.
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3 comments from Hacker News
> How far OSX has come since the days of the “cancel or allow” parody advert. In case you're wondering like me, this is the advert in question: ▶ this video
> The ridiculous song and dance of "File is dangerous, delete it?"->No->Settings->Security->Open Anyway->"File is dangerous, delete it?"->No is getting ridiculously old after literally doing it a hundred times at this point. And soon enough Apple will inevitably come up with some additional hurdle like, idk, closing Settings three times in a row while reading a fingerprint during an odd numbered minute. > So in the name of "increased security" they've needlessly turned it into a binary thing where it's completely unprotected or accept my own computer that I paid for will deliberately waste my time constantly. Remember when Apple made fun of Microsoft for doing exactly this? ▶ this video
Macs permission prompts remind me of this: ▶ this video There is several software that doesn't work with Catalina. In my case RingCentral meetings. But in general people shouldn't downgrade to it... it is 100% a downgrade, as it removes features available in the previous version.