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I've uninstalled lots of apps when they've sent coupons via notifications. Notifications are to notify me about things I need to act on. They are not a marketing channel. So, yes.
If you had the option to block the marketing notifications but still receive the important ones, would you do that?
Throwing a "This app wants to send you notifications" dialog as soon as you launch an app for the first time, should be banned.
There are a lot of apps that are basically made of notifications. When I install Signal I want it to immediately ask me if sending notifications is ok so that I can say yes.
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I'm not an expert in ad affairs. With this information on the table, consider the following: I subscribe to a "price alert" for a product in my sellers app. The price gets triggered, and because there's a lot of demand for this item, I have to be fast. This, for me, would justify the "push notification". But, would this also be considered an "ad"? From the definition of the word "advertisement"[1], which says it's "a…
If there is no way to harass people with notifications for "price alerts", there will also be no incentive to create artificial pricing systems with sudden "promotions", meant to hijack users' attention and cognitive sovereignty. Don't fall for the tricks. Think about the systems your are engaging with all the way to the end, and consider if you are being manipulated. This is an environment where it pays to be parano…
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I've uninstalled lots of apps when they've sent coupons via notifications. Notifications are to notify me about things I need to act on. They are not a marketing channel. So, yes.
If you had the option to block the marketing notifications but still receive the important ones, would you do that?
So far I've never put up with it and always either switched to a competitor or abandoned the whole thing.
Depending on how this is implemented, this could actually be a step in the right direction. Lots of apps already send "promotional" push notifications (including big names like Lyft and Uber). The only way to turn them off was to turn off all notifications, which meant missing actual important updates. If this change means being able to opt-out of one without losing the other, I'm all for it.
Now the potential loss for the app maker for being annoying is far lower.
How about Apple bring down the hammer on apps that are abusing notifications right now (or you just uninstall them), instead of allowing ways to shove more ads into peoples eyeballs. There is no scenario where this is a benefit to the consumer.
Sure there is. Walk into a grocery store, get a push notification for some sale items. There are also plenty of annoying things developers can do with it. I'll turn those off, or more likely uninstall the app.
1: App knows your location - most likely is profiting from that
2: App can see how often you visit $place, all for the cost of a few 'sale' items.
3: More extensive profiling can possibly occur, depending on what data the OS allows you to access.
As apposed to:
1: Walk to shop, no smartphone, see discounts inside shop.
There's 0 reason this information needs to be presented via any form of 'notification'. It could literally be done by $shop.com/discounteditems.txt.
[0] https://i.imgur.com/442C7Ij.jpg (slide from an ancient WWDC)
Throwing a "This app wants to send you notifications" dialog as soon as you launch an app for the first time, should be banned.
