China News Service, October 29. According to the official WeChat news of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, recently, the problem of harassing users with information in the pop-up window of the computer PC application software has become prominent, and the people have reported a strong resentment. The Information and Communication Administration of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on October 28 Organize and convene administrative guidance meetings to standardize the pop-up information behavior of enterprise computer PC applications.
Representatives from Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, 360, Kingsoft, iQiyi, Master Lu, and Xunlei attended the conference.
The meeting pointed out that after special rectification, major Internet companies (TOP100) have further standardized the behavior of opening screen pop-ups on the mobile APP side, and the problems of "cannot be closed" and "random jump" have been basically solved.
However, on the computer PC side, some application software started automatically without the user's consent and started pop-ups to harass users, set barriers to be difficult to close, and forced to install other software bundles and other outstanding problems, which seriously infringed the legitimate rights and interests of users.
The meeting emphasized that relevant companies must strictly abide by relevant laws and regulations, actively find problems, conduct reforms, draw inferences from one another, always keep in mind "what can be done and what can not be done", and pay equal attention to development and regulation, and maintain user rights and win user trust as an enterprise. The foundation of development.
The meeting required that relevant enterprises should earnestly implement their main corporate responsibilities: First, fully protect users' right to know, clearly inform users of the source of the pop-up information, and must not force users to accept the product's self-starting pop-up or provide related services by means of "default consent"; The second is to respect the user's right to choose, provide users with clear, effective and prominent pop-up information closing options, and do not use false or too small close buttons to mislead users; the third is to further optimize and improve the product to avoid concentrated pop-ups when starting up, which affects users' normal Use to effectively protect the rights and interests of users.
Relevant companies stated that they will strictly implement relevant requirements, conduct comprehensive self-inspection and rectification, and insist on operating in compliance with laws and regulations, so as to provide users with higher-quality, richer and more reasonable products and services.