Comment by Pxtl

Imho there are 3 separate classes of notifications

1) Ads - these should not exist, really, or at worst should be flagged in the app store as an anti-feature isolateable from other notifications.

2) "Recommendations" - that is, stuff you didn't subscribe to but are things the app offers that they "think you would like". These are defensible but should never ever be mixed with...

3) Stuff I actually explicitly subscribed to.

Breaking these rules should be rejection from the app store. Especially now that Google is legally required to allow 3rd-party app stores, they have much greater grounds to properly curate the Play Store. Let the filth live on 3rd-party stores.