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I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones

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Re: I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones

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Post by Nextgrid »

cproctor wrote: post #17

This is when you email the company's head of marketing and/or security expressing naive concern about hacking/phishing. "I received an email that looked like it's from your company, but I know it's not real because I didn't sign up for any of your lists."

When I receive unsolicited marketing email I will often intentionally not unsubscribe and instead set up a rule (now that I know the sender address or some way to reliably identify their spam) to redirect any future messages to someone high up at their company or their GDPR data protection officer.

Re: I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones

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Post by astockwell »

punnerud wrote: post #79

Any way to subscribe to the notifications into Python or similar? So I can run my own custom filters before I decide what and when the notification should be delivered. Could also use the notifications to trigger automations.

This is an outstanding suggestion. Rife for abuse, but no more abuse than anything else.

Re: I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones

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Post by Nextgrid »

punnerud wrote: post #79

Any way to subscribe to the notifications into Python or similar? So I can run my own custom filters before I decide what and when the notification should be delivered. Could also use the notifications to trigger automations.

I don't think there's any way to access iOS notifications outside the device. If the notifications you care about are also available via email you can disable the official app's notifications and use email rules to redirect specific email notifications to something like Pushover, essentially rolling your own push notifications where you can use rules to control what gets through.

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Post by rlpb »

ianbutler wrote: post #3

I was saying this yesterday, LinkedIn, as an example, sends me the most inane notifications as do many apps trying to steal my time. I pay LinkedIn 100 dollars a month, those notifications should serve me, not the other way around. I really don't care about some low substance content written by someone who I'm neither connected with nor follow.

I deleted my LinkedIn account many years ago because of unwanted notifications and an inability to disable them.

I haven't missed it.

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Post by RedGreenBlack »

dgellow wrote: post #64
grose wrote: post #6

I've noticed this in social networks as well. If you don't get enough transactional notifications for a while they start making up fake ones like Twitter's "in case you missed this Tweet", Facebook's "[someone] posted for the first time in a while", all the while lighting up the notifications badge. Leads to a "boy who cried wolf" scenario in which I stop trusting notifications entirely and just ignore them, possibly…

Linkedin is just the worst company ever doing stuff like that, I try to disable all their notifications and almost never engage with anything there (and I check the platform maybe 3-4 times a year max), and they continue to try to tell me some people more or less in my network are doing things I never cared about. God I hate this company.

Yeah this has annoyed me for years. They have notifications for literally anything. I keep disabling notification types on LinkedIn and they just keep making new ones up

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

ajkjk wrote: post #26

I always relish in uninstalling apps when this happens but I hope they have stats somewhere that show: "oh, we sent this annoying marketing notification and an uninstall happens", and I hope some analyst is finding that pattern in their data and telling people about it. But I have to assume the answer is, 'probably not', given that nothing seems to change.

You could always leave a nice honest review on the app store; that lets you be explicit and provides a clear signal.

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Post by hericium »

gnicholas wrote: post #77
hericium wrote: post #18

I wish iOS had some "allow notifications from this app for x minutes" option similar to "share location once". Uber is a good example of an app I would like to see notifications from, when using their service, but disabled them completely. Uber abuses this feature to show ad banners for scooters or food when I am not using their app and it's not even open (as in not present on the open applications list).

Uber is one of the worst. You can turn off all notifications unrelated to your existing rides. They hide this in the app under: Settings, Privacy, Notifications. Lyft has the same hidden structure.

Thanks! Will try it out.
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