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Post by aembleton »

socalgal2 wrote: post #491
drdaeman wrote: post #296

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There should be a public API, open to any user-designated program (including self-made, without requiring any special hoops to obtain any fancy entitlements), that can act as a "firewall" for all notifications (except, possibly, for few system-critical ones), allowing it to control and modify those as it seems fit.

Sounds great! Until your grandpa downloads a notification filter than really just forwards all his notifications to the bad guys so they can hack all his accounts

That can already happen because apps can get the permission to read your notifications.

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

rjst01 wrote: post #444
tomComb wrote: post #371

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I can sympathize. I don’t know about uber in particular but it gets quite tiring trying to find and follow these obscure settings. And what’s worse is that the companies always seem to find a way to reset it to what they want quite frequently. One of their tricks is to reorganize permissions frequently so the ones that allow their spam to get through are always new.

I had to completely turn off notifications for Instagram because none of the provided settings appear to disable the almost-daily "for you" and "trending" notifications. Now I don't get notified when someone DMs me there, which has lead to me missing important messages.

On Android:

1. your profile icon (bottom right) > hamburger menu (top right) > Notifications > Posts, stories, and comments > turn off ‘Posts suggested for you’ and ‘Notes’

2. on the same screen, set ‘First posts and stories’ to ‘From people I follow’

3. back out to Notifications > Live and reels > turn off ‘Recently uploaded reels’ and ‘Reels suggested for you’

This works for me, but if you’re still getting notifications you don’t want, you’ll have to figure out what category/type they fall under and turn that off.

Re: More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

aendruk wrote: post #505
rjst01 wrote: post #444

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I had to completely turn off notifications for Instagram because none of the provided settings appear to disable the almost-daily "for you" and "trending" notifications. Now I don't get notified when someone DMs me there, which has lead to me missing important messages.

I went through a couple rounds of trying to raise specifically this issue with support before simply uninstalling the app out of principle. They had their chance and burned it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44421441

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

dmurray wrote: post #467
lxgr wrote: post #456

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So does "Too Good To Go". Missed a pickup notification because I didn't remember having angrily turned off all notifications one day, since they don't have any more fine-grained option. I let their support know, but they don't care. I guess as long as it still brings in more additional sales than it costs in lost users, it works for them. This is something I like better on Android: As far as I remember, separate "not…

I definitely get unmutable notifications on Android from my first-party phone manufacturer bloatware apps, which is the equivalent here. Would I like to see the new Themes in the Theme Marketplace? Pretty sure I've had marketing notifications on third party apps I couldn't disable without losing functionality, too. Separate notification channels might be mandatory in theory, but even if so, the Play Store is worse at…

Go to Settings > Apps and disable said bloatware apps.

If not visible in the list, turn on ‘Show system apps’.

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

ponector wrote: post #340
sethops1 wrote: post #206

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I'm at the point where literally only the messages, clock, and maps apps can send me notifications.

That is an awesome idea! To send ads from messages app.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/08/18/spammy-ads-are-inva...

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Post by ta1243 »

TheBicPen wrote: post #422
ta1243 wrote: post #360

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I was in my local store on Friday looking for a new torch and had a quick browse of the chargers. USB-C cables were more expensive than lightning.

That's supply and demand I suppose. As demand for lightning dwindles due to a decreasing number of people actively using devices with lightning ports, the price will tend to drop. That's not an invalid reason to prefer lightning over USB-C, but it's not sustainable. Production of lightning accessories is probably at or near 0 at this point so the oversupply will not last forever. Enjoy the deals while you can!

The cables tend to cost the same, way more than the cost of manufacture.

If you're buying them in bulk on amazon, usb-c is still more expensive than lightning, but the vast majority of people tend to buy cables when they have either lost, forgotten, or broken their existing cables. Go to a shop at an airport or train station and they'll charge you £20 for a cable, and people but them.

The "apple tax" is irrelevant to the actual amount paid.

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

ghostpepper wrote: post #557
steveBK123 wrote: post #302

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You're 100% right, Apple as a fast-follower "getting it right" tech company, and there's nothing to fast follow right now. IoT/smarthome has been a niche/fad going nowhere since day 1. Smart speakers are commodities. They dabbled in an EV project, canned it. They've dabbled in AR with the VisionPro but really it's too early, if it will ever work. AI is software not hardware. Apple smartphones/tablets/watches have ess…

>> They sell a lot of headphones I guess. If you are still using bluetooth headphones as they existed 10+ years ago, and haven't tried using apple headphones with an apple computer/phone, you are missing a massive quality of life upgrade in terms of basically never having to do the pairing dance again after your initial purchase.

You don’t have to do that with non-Apple headphones either.

The bigger problem with Bluetooth headphones is that the batteries are non-replaceable, so consumers are incentivized to throw them out every few years (just like smartphones).

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Post by komali2 »

FredPret wrote: post #543
strictnein wrote: post #532

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> "unregulated captialism" Half the news stories about Apple, Google, etc are them being fined or being forced to change their business practices due to regulations. These companies employ hundreds if not thousands of people to make sure they are following thousands and thousands of regulations.

I was snarkily echoing my parent comment’s criticism (sorry!). Of course there’s lots of regulation especially once these companies grow large. My point is it’s capitalism that grew them from $0 to $3T, and it’s capitalism that’ll take them back down to $0 and recycle those assets into newer, innovative companies.

What makes you think these companies can be toppled, considering they practically write our legislation? https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/apple-inc/summary?id=D00002...

What capitalistic mechanism allows a garage startup to compete with a company worth $3,000,000,000,000 ?

Surely you've seen this in Silicon Valley: the infamous way Google (or whoever) kills your startup by releasing your product for free, waiting for you to die, and then killing the product, just to ensure there's no competition in a field they may want to one day enter.

Or they just buy you. Great for the founder! Terrible for the consumer.

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Post by specialist »

FredPret wrote: post #543
strictnein wrote: post #532

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> "unregulated captialism" Half the news stories about Apple, Google, etc are them being fined or being forced to change their business practices due to regulations. These companies employ hundreds if not thousands of people to make sure they are following thousands and thousands of regulations.

I was snarkily echoing my parent comment’s criticism (sorry!). Of course there’s lots of regulation especially once these companies grow large. My point is it’s capitalism that grew them from $0 to $3T, and it’s capitalism that’ll take them back down to $0 and recycle those assets into newer, innovative companies.

For that to happen requires competition.

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Post by komali2 »

strictnein wrote: post #533
_benton wrote: post #279

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Apple wouldn't exist without "rampant unregulated capitalism".

Apple hasn't existed in a time with "rampant unregulated capitalism", whatever that term is supposed to mean. You can argue there weren't enough regulations, but there were massive volumes of business rules regulations in 1976.

It existed today, so, yes it has. Capitalism describes the global mode of production, not just the United States economy. We haven't already forgotten the anti-suicide nets at Foxconn, have we? Without the margins that cheap foreign labor provides, the insanely high growth target required to please investors in a Capitalist economy can't be achieved.

I think we're fixating too much on purity of the word "unregulated." If you'd like to offer a different one I'm open to it - to me, the closest example of "regulated capitalism" is the PRC's State Capitalism, however it's a poor example given the atrocious working conditions there and the massive wealth inequality.

"Unregulated" to me doesn't mean "literally no regulations." To me it means, the owners of Capital have a very large amount of power, to the point that every regulation on them is an uphill, nigh-unwinnable battle. See: pushes for 30 hour work weeks in Europe. Or, see: pushes for socialized healthcare in the USA. I think we can both agree that the USA will never have socialized healthcare so long as the health insurance companies wield so much power and influence!

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