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Comment by xxr

8 months ago

>app icons are just "advertisement"

You wouldn't believe the volume of actual advertisements that show up as push notifications on my wife's phone

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AaronAPU  8 months ago

These things only exist because some people just allow it. They allow it and occasionally buy something, enabling the entire hellhole we now all live in.

  • RamblingCTO  8 months ago

    These things exist because companies and the people working there are predatory assholes. Let's not make the victims to be the villains and get off your high horse. Most people don't even know how.

userbinator  8 months ago

At least relatively recent versions of Android let you turn off notifications per-app:

https://support.google.com/android/answer/9079661?hl=en

  • flkiwi  8 months ago

    Which is nice, but when the offender is, say, a security device that sends event notification but ALSO sends marketing spam, with no granular control over types of notifications, it's not a great situation.

    • thomasfortes  8 months ago

      Android has granular control over notifications, which is great because some apps that I need send a lot of marketing notifications that I don't care about but I cannot get rid of essential notifications.

      Not all apps do it and some push all notifications through a single channel (and some manufacturers hide the granularity options in advanced settings, I'm looking at you Samsung) but at least it exists.

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  • ajsnigrutin  8 months ago

    Even better, apps have to ask you for permission to even show notifications!

    Game? Doesn't need notfications, deny, done!

Mengkudulangsat  8 months ago

These are so infuriating they should be illegal.

Especially when they come from apps you can't delete like your bannking app.