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Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android

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Re: Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android

#41
Nice to see something like this... I've gotten to where I simply have most app notifications disabled altogether. Pretty much only phone calls and text messages get through, and my text message notification sound is pretty subtle at that.

If I go a few days without going into a given social media app to see the notifications in the app, so be it. For that matter, I'm relatively selective about the apps I even install in the first place.

Re: Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android

#42
yes! I looked into implementing adblock on the iPhone notification tray and it didn't look like it was possible. Glad someone is working on it for android.

Apps shouldn't be allowed to send notifications for Ads! I give any app on my phone one chance to be annoying and then turn them off.

This feels like something where we should be able to use an on device classifier or even LLM to bucket notifications, similar to a spam inbox.

Even better if they can pull any potential coupons out for use later without flavor text from the notification itself.

Re: Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android

#43
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I second Buzzkill. My comment was going to be "What does this do that Buzzkill doesn't?"

Honestly I did not know about Buzzkill. I suppose the big differentiator is that DoNotNotify is absolutely free.

Well yeah, it's great that you made a free app that can do similar things, I was just pointing at an alternative that folks can try.

Re: Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android

#44

This looks nice! I had no idea you could actually control notifications as an app. One thing I've always wanted is the ability to "group" notifications. Apps like WhatsApp can be really bad for pinging lots of times within a minute for individual messages. I really don't need my phone to buzz more than once every five minutes, and wish I could set rules like "don't buzz for x minutes after a notification".

That would be nice.. or at least, don't buzz unless it's after I've activated and interacted with the phone/app in question.

Re: Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android

#45

This looks nice! I had no idea you could actually control notifications as an app. One thing I've always wanted is the ability to "group" notifications. Apps like WhatsApp can be really bad for pinging lots of times within a minute for individual messages. I really don't need my phone to buzz more than once every five minutes, and wish I could set rules like "don't buzz for x minutes after a notification".

That's a great suggestion. Perhaps in the next version!

Re: Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android

#47
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You long press the notification and block the app. Pretty straightforward.

Step 1: Within the Facebook App (Most Important) Open the Facebook app. Tap the Menu icon (three lines/your profile picture) > Settings & Privacy > Settings. Scroll to Notifications (under "Notifications and Permissions"). Tap Notifications, then select Push notifications. Toggle off all notification types (Comments, Likes, Tags, Birthdays, etc.) and turn off the main Push Notifications toggle. Check Email & SMS Noti…

I just disable notifications for Facebook on my phone altogether. I'll proactively check every few days.

Re: Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android

#49
Love the on-device approach. The fact that it never phones home is a huge differentiator — most "utility" apps these days are just data collection with a feature attached. The regex filtering is clever. Have you thought about adding ML-based classification for notifications that are harder to catch with patterns? Something lightweight like a small on-device model could detect promotional vs. transactional notifications without needing manual rules. Also curious about battery impact — how often does it process the notification stream?

Re: Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android

#50
I would love to use this, but I don't want to allow a third party app with closed source to read all my notifications. This can read OTP passwords, full messages, etc. so it must be open source for me to consider it.

I would donate/pay for this if it was open source on F-Droid.

Kudos to you for building it. I put off building this exact same application so many times it's not even funny. Too bad I'm too lazy to maintain something like this.

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