Comment by pcl
20 hours ago
For me, it's quite straightforward. If an app makes an unsolicited spammy push, it's notifications-off. No exceptions.
20 hours ago
For me, it's quite straightforward. If an app makes an unsolicited spammy push, it's notifications-off. No exceptions.
Snapchat has to be the all time worst offender to me about abusive level of notifications. Luckily, you can turn them off, but holy cow batman, that's a lot of notification options to deal with.
For me the worst is NextDoor. I don’t have the app installed, but they also have email notifications. There are seemingly 100 options and I turned them all off when I first made the account. Periodically they add new ones and auto-enable them for everyone. There is not universal way to shut them off, short of blocking them all together or deleting my account. The account was such a pain to setup that I’m hesitant to delete it, for the 1 time every couple years where it’s useful.
Yep, I straight up deleted my Nextdoor. Nextdoor itself is spammy and ad ridden. And most of the content in the community is also just spam anyway.
My neighborhood has a WhatsApp. I engage with it if I feel like it. Works great
I flagged them as spam the other day.
Even worse with ND e-mails are how they've absolutely perfected the cut-off character limit for what's being posted in your area. So my inbox is just perma-barraged with click-bait-y "This place on Smith Street has the best...", "Health officials are investigating an outbreak of...", etc.
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Remember when Android used to let notification senders hijack turning your screen on, Snapchat used that one a lot.
That's "growth hacking" for you
Yes. I’d rather live with the temporary inconvenience of needing to open the Uber app to check the status of my ride once a month than wade through notification spam on an intermittent basis forever.
Agreed, there’s a level of trust and as soon as the app breaks that trust with spam, notifications get turned off for that app.
I just refuse to grant permission as my default. If I ever feel like I’m missing out, I can turn it on later. Usually I don’t and if I do I quickly regret it.
Has been like this on my phone for a while. It's crazy when you see someone who hasn't blocked everything and their phone dings multiple times a minute.