Comment by a_imho

7 years ago

Interestingly I interpret the article as apps were abusing push notifications without a second thought in the past when it was explicitly against the guidelines, I fail to see how they will self moderate now some of it is even allowed.

With the ample data we have so far it most probably will lead to dark UI patterns with dysfunctional opt-outs and/or blanket consents at most if someone takes it seriously at all.

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amelius  7 years ago

Then these apps would be removed from the app store, I suppose.

  • fmajid  7 years ago

    Apple's enforcement of the app store rules is sporadic at best, specially the widespread abuse of notifications for marketing.

    • rekoil  7 years ago

      But perhaps the reason they have been so lax in enforcing that particular rule is because they know they are doing it themselves in their own apps, and didn't want to attract lawsuits?

      If so, now that they are introducing this new functionality they might start looking more carefully at notification system abuse.

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  • a_imho  7 years ago

    It is wishful thinking. I can recall no case when someone said we should spam less ads or do it in a more respectful manner.

    These apps could have been removed long ago, per the guidelines.

  • untog  7 years ago

    It's tricky. Could you imagine if Apple removed Uber from the App Store? Users would be livid. And at Apple, not Uber, I suspect.

    • netheril96  7 years ago

      Apple just needs to stop Uber from uploading new versions. Users won’t notice a thing, but Uber can’t have new features any more.

kaiabwpdjqn  7 years ago

I would assume you could control the showing of ad notifications and non ad notifications separately as a user.

  • bilbo0s  7 years ago

    That's what I'm assuming.

    Not only that, but now Apple is probably going to be very aggressive about kicking apps off the app store if they find even a single notification in the non add stream that they, in their sole estimation, consider to be an ad.

    This might be a trap feature. I could easily see it being used to allow apple a reason to get rid of you.

    • clay_the_ripper  7 years ago

      As a user, good! I hate the fact that there are certain apps that to use properly I have to have push notifications on or it severely restricts the functionality of the app (uber eats for example). Then they send promotional ads to me which I can’t turn off which is really annoying.

      I’m excited for Apple to enforce this policy. Yet another example of Apple being pro user.

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