Comment by wildzzz
1 day ago
It's the same with app notifications. I get a new app and it asks to turn on notifications. I need to get timely updates on stuff happening in the app so I click yes. Suddenly every day my phone's notification drawer is just full of spam from that app that is not relevant to what I actually need the app for. For most legit apps, they'll break out the notifications settings so you can turn off the marketing stream but leave on the critical stream.
Apps like Rollo will complain on every launch that it cannot spam you with notifications if you don’t enable it.
Honda doesn’t let you find where your car is (which is a paid service) unless you share your precise location with them.
The Honda thing sounds more like a technical limitation for the feature to work than a way to get permission for malicious reasons.
My fucking public transport app does that, it's incredibly irritating. And all the notifications I get are lotto ads.