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Mac Vs PC commercials - Cancel or Allow?

MacVsPCcommercialsCited 3× on HN, 2020-2026
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65K views · 17 years ago · comedy · dated

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.

Satire & parodyUX & UI design#macvspc#vistauac#appleads#gatekeeper#parody

3 comments from Hacker News

@ghgr2026 · in “OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III”

> 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

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@ndiddy2025 · in “Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software”

> 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

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@xtracto2020 · in “Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet?”

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.

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