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Just to provide one example, I definitely have seen macOS pop up notifications advertising that Safari is better than everything else, and I should switch back to Safari.

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> Just to provide one example, I definitely have seen macOS pop up notifications advertising that Safari is better than everything else, and I should switch back to Safari.

I would love to see a screenshot because this I simply don’t believe

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/153379/how-do-you-...

I saw it within the past year. I didn’t save a screenshot anywhere I can find. I believe I applied defaults overrides (like in the link) to prevent it from coming back, much like Windows GPO policies.

It's well documented, I saw it at least once a month when logged out of iCloud. Certainly not the most annoying pop-up though, that award goes to the automatic Apple Music launcher when you put on headphones.

This is an old thing they've been doing almost a decade now [0]. It's still around now [1]. You probably never because you either use Safari as your web browser or use it enough for the pop up to not trigger. I don't really get why you think this is unbelievable when Apple will regularly try to get you to use Apple Music, iCloud, etc. Why not Safari?

[0] https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/how-to-osx-try-safari-promotion....

[1] https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/TRYTHENEWSAFARI.html

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