News spoilers (without spoilers)

[tight fart]

Was looking forward to the race on ch4, just picked my phone up to make a call, pressed the home button to open the phone and CNN have the result out as a news notification!!
Why do the need to do that, the first 3 words.
If they just put Monza race result, so you click to find out, it's not rocket science!!
Rant over
App deleted.

[Mr_Thyroid]

Some clever person should create a second app where you can tell it your favourite sport and it will hide spoilers from you until you've said it's ok.

[noell35]

Google have done the same to me for the last 2 races.

[Daston]

I follow both McLaren and Ferrari on FB. Ferrari are constantly posting updates and results as soon as they happen. I'm careful to avoid the internet when I've missed a race but I do sometimes catch quali results.

[CraigyMc]

tight fart said:

Was looking forward to the race on ch4, just picked my phone up to make a call, pressed the home button to open the phone and CNN have the result out as a news notification!!
Why do the need to do that, the first 3 words.
If they just put Monza race result, so you click to find out, it's not rocket science!!
Rant over
App deleted.

You decided to make yourself connected by having a smartphone in the first place. You can choose to disconnect if you don't like it.

Fairly simple, really.

[Ki3r]

Daston said:

I follow both McLaren and Ferrari on FB. Ferrari are constantly posting updates and results as soon as they happen. I'm careful to avoid the internet when I've missed a race but I do sometimes catch quali results.

Yet I still find myself doing it...

Worse one was when Hamilton could win the championship. Got home already to watch the race that had been recorded. Pulled up on the drive, picked my phone up off the seat and saw a BBC news notification saying he had won. I could have cried.

[Smollet]

Ki3r said:

Yet I still find myself doing it...

Worse one was when Hamilton could win the championship. Got home already to watch the race that had been recorded. Pulled up on the drive, picked my phone up off the seat and saw a BBC news notification saying he had won. I could have cried.

I suspect you weren't alone on seeing that.

[Jinba Ittai]

I have all notifications turned off on my phone, no news related home pages on any device, and careful to avoid radio or tv when i'm out and about on a grand prix day. A few years ago i was in a local co-op getting a few bits, i was stood in the queue when i was aware of the news coming on over the radio. I plonked the basket down and left the shop for ten mins.

[thegreenhell]

On a rare positive note, on R2 this afternoon just before the 4pm news, Johnny Walker said "if you're an f1 fan and you recorded today's race to watch later, you'll probably want to avoid this next news bulletin."

[corozin]

thegreenhell said:

On a rare positive note, on R2 this afternoon just before the 4pm news, Johnny Walker said "if you're an f1 fan and you recorded today's race to watch later, you'll probably want to avoid this next news bulletin."

At the Monza GP weekend I was listening to the rugby on 5Live and the woman commenting on it broke straight out of the game, announced the race result, and then just went back to the commentary. No warning - what a ...