Comment by Tepix
7 years ago
As a consumer, i uninstall such apps. One example is the german „KaufDa“ app which was quite useful to me. I complained about the unwanted push messages and their support pretended to be dumb. I ended up uninstalling it.
Only if consumers refuse to accept these annoyances it will stop.
I was an Audible subscriber for 5+ years until they started sending ads through push notifications with no way to disable them (media controls are done through the notification system on Android so I didn't want to disable them at the OS level). I canceled my subscription and told them why.
I don't remember every having notifications so I went looking. Found them all disabled: https://imgur.com/QKdDIqz
I had all of the notification options disabled in the app and I was still getting them. I even submitted a support request thinking it was maybe a bug but the response I got back was that it wasn't possible to disable the notifications I was getting.
Now you will be able to use the app but not opt-in to promotional junk.
Or, more realistically, when it's outlawed. Though that's actually just customers collectively refusing to accept it.
You can disable notifications without uninstalling it.