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Seconding that I'd love this. At the same time, has App Store's guidelines/rules changed to allow spammy ads notifications? It used to be 100% disallowed and I worked for a company that got an app denied because of it until changed, nowadays it seems to just be completely common. I fucking hate it.
Whats the problem of simply uninstalling the app once it does that?
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Door dash is breaking their website on purpose (pretty clear how they force hiding things when they detect them) for it to not work properly in phone browsers. This should be illegal.
That would be absurd to legislate.
If there's a clear benefit to society, I don't think it would be an absurd regulation at all, and there's precedent for equally fine-grained/detailed regulations in many industries.
Another one of that category I'd love to see: Mandate at least one secure 2FA method other than SMS-OTP.
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Android had a good idea that the scumbag MBAs and marketers ruined. Whenever I get a spammy notification from an app I'd prefer to not uninstall, it's always logged under a general category that is mixed in with notifications that I want. Amazon for example has channels for Alexa, account authentication, and then a notifications category.
This tribalism is flat-out childish. A “good idea” that doesn’t stand up to adversarial actors isn’t a “good idea”. And I assure you that your developer buddies were just as complicit as the evil business-people and marketers in ruining it.
I've also been happy with my career. I've only had one scummy feature handed to me my first week at a job. I called out the product manager for it during a full engineering team meeting, asking him if he thought our customers were stupid, and earned a lot of good will with the other engineers for calling him on his shit. He was fired within the year, I'm still on the team, and that implementation is now gone.
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This guideline has been revised in 2020. > Apple updated its App Store guidelines today with a change to its traditionally strict restrictions around push notifications. Apple has long banned apps from using notifications for “advertising, promotions, or direct marketing purposes,” but that changes today. Apps can now send marketing notifications when “customers have explicitly opted in to receive them.” Users must a…
And yet, I’m constantly getting advertisements from Uber and Instacart
It's unclear what data the government tracks, but it's annoying that Apple allows such a trivial security hole when they keep bragging about "privacy".
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Does iOS not have anything akin to the concept of Android's notification channels? Using Doordash as the example, at the OS level I can independently disable "General" notifications, which cuts out all the advertising spam, Delivery Status, and Payment Status. Long-pressing on an offending notification displays a button that takes you directly to the channel which that notification went through, potentially so you ca…
Android had a good idea that the scumbag MBAs and marketers ruined. Whenever I get a spammy notification from an app I'd prefer to not uninstall, it's always logged under a general category that is mixed in with notifications that I want. Amazon for example has channels for Alexa, account authentication, and then a notifications category.
The even more significant bit is that governments can track users this way without standard warrants: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/06/push-no... It's unclear what data the government tracks, but it's annoying that Apple allows such a trivial security hole when they keep bragging about "privacy".
The even more significant bit is that governments can track users this way without standard warrants: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/06/push-no... It's unclear what data the government tracks, but it's annoying that Apple allows such a trivial security hole when they keep bragging about "privacy".
This whole article is kinda weird. These are apps that already are installed, the user chose to get notifications ... yes so when the notification runs the app runs and some telemetry is collected. Cat is out of the bag already. I'm concerned about this whole topic too but man that article is hard to read and really just kinda states the obvious. Why it is focused on notifications is sort of beyond me. There's nothin…
But if an institution wants to find out what devices subscribe to certain groups or pages
They could correspond the times that a pages media posts, with the times a range of devices received a notification from specific apps.
It’s that easy
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Does iOS not have anything akin to the concept of Android's notification channels? Using Doordash as the example, at the OS level I can independently disable "General" notifications, which cuts out all the advertising spam, Delivery Status, and Payment Status. Long-pressing on an offending notification displays a button that takes you directly to the channel which that notification went through, potentially so you ca…
Android had a good idea that the scumbag MBAs and marketers ruined. Whenever I get a spammy notification from an app I'd prefer to not uninstall, it's always logged under a general category that is mixed in with notifications that I want. Amazon for example has channels for Alexa, account authentication, and then a notifications category.