I don't know when (or even if) it changed, but, using notifications for ads/promotion on iOS used to be a dev terms violation.
I really miss that era.
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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One strike and you're out rule works perfectly fine for me. If they think they can abuse my attention with stuff like this, I immediately uninstall and go on with my life.
I've been struggling with the Uber app and Uber Eats who has been sending me ads which I found no way to disable. My problem is that I do want notifications for when my driver has arrived.
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Re: I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones
#323Earlier quoted context omitted.
One strike and you're out rule works perfectly fine for me. If they think they can abuse my attention with stuff like this, I immediately uninstall and go on with my life.
I've been struggling with the Uber app and Uber Eats who has been sending me ads which I found no way to disable. My problem is that I do want notifications for when my driver has arrived.
On android - go to settings > apps > uber > notifications
Disable 'all promotions and recommendations'
Re: I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones
#324My rule is: if I get a single notification that I find useless, I'll immediately disable that notification channel (I'm on Android; I'm not sure if iOS has a concept of channel-specific settings) for that app. Even if the channel can include useful notifications, as the article discusses. If the app doesn't bother to categorize its notifications into channels at all, I turn off its notifications entirely, and I won't…
> My rule is: if I get a single notification that I find useless, I'll immediately disable that notification channel (I'm on Android; I'm not sure if iOS has a concept of channel-specific settings) for that app. Even if the channel can include useful notifications, as the article discusses. Well, the developers have started fighting against that by not splitting notifications into channels anymore. Now you just get "…
I've seen that in a few apps, but worse case scenario you just lose some useful notifications. If it's not a critical app (e.g. my bank), that's a fine trade-off for me.
Re: I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones
#325I'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…
In that case i will go above and beyond to get rid of their ads. uBlock, DNS Filtering, iOS Jailbreaking ... Never used https://adnauseam.io/ ... but mhmmm maybe it’s the next step. Install the extension, load Twitter end set up endless scroll or Puppeteer script. Adnauseam would click EVERY ad it sees.
None of that will prevent unwanted notifications.
Re: I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones
#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
> My rule is: if I get a single notification that I find useless, I'll immediately disable that notification channel (I'm on Android; I'm not sure if iOS has a concept of channel-specific settings) for that app. Even if the channel can include useful notifications, as the article discusses. Well, the developers have started fighting against that by not splitting notifications into channels anymore. Now you just get "…
I've seen that in a few apps, but worse case scenario you just lose some useful notifications. If it's not a critical app (e.g. my bank), that's a fine trade-off for me.
My bank mixes ads and notifications. I get things like "Get 20% discount on this supermarket when shopping with your bank visa card this month"
Re: I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones
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It's actually possible to fine-tune it by category of notification (Settings > Notifications, either in app or on the web). I turned off Reminder, Friend Updates, and People You May Know, leaving only the notification on things I interact with or things friends brought to my attention.
It doesn't matter what you set any of these things to, if you leave your account idle for a while you'll start getting made up notifications again to try to draw you back in. Both Facebook and Twitter do this, though ime Facebook's tend to work better just because I have marginally more reason to care about any given person on my FB feed than the much more eclectic set of people my Twitter is connected to.
Strange, I've never seen a Facebook or twitter notification. They both have notifications switched off and android respects that.
My twitter account goes weeks without being accessed.
Re: I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones
#328I'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…
I think Tinder is one of the worst offenders. It spams you daily about why you should be swiping, but you kind of need to have notifications since its a chat app.
Re: I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones
#329Every notification system eventually becomes email. What that means is that we probably need OS-level spam filters so that you can report things as spam. If the notification looks spammy based on the training, it simply won't show up. Marketers think they're reaching you, an army of software engineers remained employed to figure out how to refactor the API to send notifications with the V3 protocol or whatever unnece…
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Re: I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones
#330Every notification system eventually becomes email. What that means is that we probably need OS-level spam filters so that you can report things as spam. If the notification looks spammy based on the training, it simply won't show up. Marketers think they're reaching you, an army of software engineers remained employed to figure out how to refactor the API to send notifications with the V3 protocol or whatever unnece…
I'd like the ability to whitelist notifications for certain apps by keywords. That way, I might be able to block by default and only allow through those with delivery updates.