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Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Post by matt-attack »

FridgeSeal wrote: post #198
dataflow wrote: post #92

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Starbucks is like this. They deliberately bundle together "Promotions & Order Status" to make sure you receive their junk.

So does Uber (+ eats); I don’t want deals or vouchers, I don’t want to sign up to your subscription service, I only want to know when the car is arriving. Instagram I had to disable from notifications entirely, so now I miss messages from friends frequently, because the app bombards you with so much unrelated junk. I suspect these companies know this, they know we don’t want spurious notifications, but they abuse wha…

I use Uber all the time and having notifications disabled is fine.

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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technothrasher wrote: post #335
weikju wrote: post #294

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This. It’s not even worth playing the one strike game anymore, waste of time.

Yep, I've mostly given up on the one strike rule and gone to a "don't install any phone app unless absolutely necessary" rule. Much of the time I can avoid the app by either using their web site, or just forgoing whatever functionality the app provides. Airline apps, which can be useful during a trip, get installed when the trip begins and uninstalled as soon as the trip is over.

I agree with that. I avoid most apps.

Airline apps haven’t been problematic though. I give location only while using the app. And I’ve never received advertising notifications.

It’s quite nice to pull down an eticket into Apple Wallet and have it on my watch.

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Post by 93po »

3seashells wrote: post #427
93po wrote: post #423

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Tinder gets around this by sending fake "You have a new like" or "You have a new match" message nearly daily. You open the app and have neither. I turned off all notifications except new messages to get rid of this.

Time to update the app and reclassify notifications, thus loose all your settings on a weekly basis.

Thankfully only experienced this once that I can recall with Tinder

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Post by dizhn »

soultrees wrote: post #4

I run my phone on DND all day, everyday and block notifications from almost all apps. The amount of garbage we have vying for our attention on an hourly basis is overwhelming sometimes. The worst is the apps where you do want notifications on, like your food delivery apps so you know when your food is at the door, but those companies take that as an invite to send you daily marketing notifications and it all feels li…

All my notifications are turned off except voice calls (including on whatsapp and telegram) because I want to be woken up if there's a family emergency.

Though how I am able to use the phone this way is not cool at all. I realized a long time ago that I am checking the phone all the time anyway and there's no way I would miss anything.

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Post by grotorea »

xyst wrote: post #197
standardUser wrote: post #6

I think it's vital to strictly manage what notifications we allow our phones to give us. Unfortunately, I've noticed a trend where apps are becoming less cooperative. Many apps will have a single all-or-nothing notification setting. Others have dozens of vague, poorly-labelled categories. And all of this is hidden several clicks deep in configuration settings. The result is that we can't be sure which notifications t…

That would be nuts. What would be the incentive for people to “opt in” to marketing spam? Get 10% off your next order if you leave marketing notifications on for 1 month? Also the UI would be a mess. UX would be terrible. Most people would probably ignore the massive list of options, and then complain later as to why the app isn’t notifying them :dead:

If you leave marketing spam on, you get notified on cupons and deals, seems fine for me if you want to. I don't have a problem with stores notifying me on deals on my wishlist.

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Post by jlnho »

anigbrowl wrote: post #402
jlnho wrote: post #268

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"If you're polite, nobody cares." But what's the point if nobody cares?

What I mean is that people nowadays typically don't pay attention to complaints voiced politely. Rudeness is unpleasant but more effective in getting people's attention.

Yeah I get it, I just don't think your behavoior was rude, though. In my eyes, you were being rather polite.

Re: Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

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Post by weikju »

dpig_ wrote: post #424
bluecheese452 wrote: post #377

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I am even more of a luddite. I just use the kiosk at the airport and get a physical ticket printed.

What if your ticket runs out of battery?

Paper is not yet battery-bound, thankfully
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