DoNotNotify is now Open Source • Hacker News Board

Re: DoNotNotify is now Open Source

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Post by surajrmal » Sun, Feb 08, 2026, 3:17 PM UTC

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #18

gschizas wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Android 15/16 does allow you to control notifications even lower, at the level of notification category, but indeed the app must have chosen to use them.

Most apps that are in need of notification control either: a) bundle everything in one category, from critical notifications without which the app can't fulfill its purpose to "HEY YOU HAVEN'T USED ME IN A DAY, USE ME NOW" spam b) create a new category for spam every time they feel enough users have turned off the previous one, which is often

I wish app review checked for this. It's hostile anti user behavior.

Re: DoNotNotify is now Open Source

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Post by xeromal » Sun, Feb 08, 2026, 4:56 PM UTC

nextlevelwizard wrote: post #7

Why does Android need this? Does the OS not let you control notifications?

To give you an example of what this is form, some apps like to bundle notification categories in such a way that the Tracking notification is the same as the "Buy this item on sale" notification and you can't granularly turn it off. It's 100% intentional.

Re: DoNotNotify is now Open Source

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Post by imcritic » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 1:10 AM UTC

defenestrated wrote: post #50

I use FilterBox and Buzzkill. FilterBox does seem to be superior with an inbuilt offline ML model to filter spam notifications, whilst also having a robust set of heuristic filtering options. It's also amongst the snazziest apps to use with a design that delights. Best lifetime IAP I made 7+years ago. FilterBox: https://filterbox.catchingnow.com/ Comparison post: https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/hsq7ep/b…

It's chinky and not opensource.

Re: DoNotNotify is now Open Source

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Post by patwolf » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 1:35 PM UTC

I found that writing rules was tricky when I didn't know exactly what content would be in a spam/promo notification. I ended up having claude code up a filter that asks an AI to review the notification first, which seems to be working well.

Thanks for making it open source. I've been wanting something like that for a while, but I'd been putting it off since I didn't want to learn the underpinnings of the notification service.