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RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it
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Originally posted by Nathalie
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Originally posted by matty

Also the fact that you have to uncheck EVERY single box for the sponsor is very poor design. Opting out of the sponsor should deselect all boxes... the method you chose is very devious.

The ability to uncheck/check boxes individually gives users the ability to choose the combination of promotions that they want.
Yes, but the point is that when people opt OUT of "Install Messenger Plus! Smartbar" they also expect to be opted out of all the other promotions due to how the screen is designed.

To put it in another way: if you unselect "Install Messenger Plus! Smartbar", all the other promotional choices should be unselected too!!!

The reason for this is that "make Plus! web search my default search" and "make Plus! web search my homepage" are both options which are shown indented to "Install Messenger Plus! Smartbar", implying they are SUBoptions. Which means (should mean) when you deselect the main option, all suboptions should be deselected too.

Thus, with your own words: The ability to uncheck/check boxes individually gives users the ability to choose the combination of promotions that they want ONLY IF THEY HAVE ENABLED THE MAIN OPTION.

So either your design is seriously flawed, or either the checkbox routines are seriously bugged. Either way, something needs to be fixed.

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PS: Also spreading multiple promotional sponsors around different pages is not really a good thing (Coupish promotions on the second screen, the rest on the third).... even if it is clearly visible though... it goes against any intuitive design.

This post was edited on 08-05-2012 at 06:52 PM by CookieRevised.
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Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by NMe on 08-02-2012 at 10:14 AM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by Nathalie on 08-02-2012 at 11:47 AM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by matty on 08-02-2012 at 12:14 PM
RE: RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by Nathalie on 08-02-2012 at 12:30 PM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by matty on 08-02-2012 at 12:57 PM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by CookieRevised on 08-02-2012 at 01:15 PM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by Nathalie on 08-02-2012 at 01:30 PM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by matty on 08-02-2012 at 03:47 PM
RE: RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by Nathalie on 08-05-2012 at 12:52 PM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by Spunky on 08-02-2012 at 06:22 PM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by Spunky on 08-05-2012 at 01:49 PM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by CookieRevised on 08-05-2012 at 01:49 PM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by matty on 08-05-2012 at 08:31 PM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by CookieRevised on 08-06-2012 at 07:34 AM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by matty on 08-10-2012 at 12:03 PM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by MeEtc on 08-10-2012 at 02:42 PM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by Justzen on 08-12-2012 at 12:12 AM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by Discrate on 11-12-2012 at 06:06 AM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by Nathalie on 11-12-2012 at 10:10 AM
RE: Home page changed even though I did not opt for it - by DeathsAngel on 12-09-2012 at 06:25 PM


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