Comment by balderdash
21 hours ago
I wish apple/google would implement better notification control - like the ability to turn off all marketing notifications, and a much better digest format
21 hours ago
I wish apple/google would implement better notification control - like the ability to turn off all marketing notifications, and a much better digest format
Notification Channels is the official way to do this on Android, but it's up to the app developer to categorize them properly. They have no incentive to allow you to turn off ads.
Actually, they do have an incentive to let you turn off ads. If they don't, many users will turn off notifications entirely. At least if they categorize them, some users will just turn off the bothersome ones.
I'd say most people don't though, and those people might be more influential to advertisements anyways so it's a net win for them.
If you're on Android, I'll always recommend Buzzkill to add very granular rules for notification filtering. I set up all kinds of filters just for the Amazon app.
On iOS I assume you're sol, that notification system is unhinged to my eyes.
I just turn off all notifications for any app that sends me marketing notifications.
You are less charitable than me. Maybe I'll adopt your approach. I first give an app the benefit of the doubt and go into the apps notification preferences and see if I can fine-tune their notifications. If not, off for all at the OS-level. If yes, I tweak it, but if I get surprised by one later, off for all at the OS-level or uninstall. It's especially annoying because I don't have notifications shown on my home screen and need to unlock with a pin so if I go through the trouble of unlocking my phone to spam and I extra annoyed with the app.
That would be nice. I wouldn’t be surprised, as on-phone models get more capable, if we don’t see them start to build an “inbox” like we see with email where you can then start seeing much more heavy processing happening.
I think that's what the Notification Organizer on Android (maybe Pixel exclusive, not sure) does. It's sorting notifications into broad categories using AI and groups them in the notification shade.
Makes sense, Google definitely have a lot more experience in that space with gmail than Apple do.
Too bad about the walled garden or you'd have this tweak already installed years ago.