The Amazon app, which for many years has faithfully executed its legitimate role as an app that helps me order stuff and track those orders, recently sent me a notification to let me know it thinks I might like some JBL headphones.
It made me furious. How dare they?
At least they normally let you selectively disable promotions
Really? That’s handy. Is that an Amazon config option or an iOS config option?
I'm not sure about on iOS, on android if you long press on any notification and go to disable it there are a bunch of toggleable notification categories
Install Graphene OS or Lineage OS as notifications for the majority of apps require Google Play Services and completely are killed without them.
Or just turn notifications off in your OS of choice, if having no notifications is a solution for you.
The problem is that some notifications are useful, and so completely axing notifications isn’t a very good solution.
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Android offers better controls and mercifully shunts some offenders to a “silent” inbox, but it’s not totally off the hook, either.
On both platforms, notifications have been and continue to be a constant distraction, a plague upon our already razor-thin attention spans.
Every app has to show you an example of the kind of notification it wants to send you, and you get to swipe left or right to opt in or out.
This would save us the trouble of going into the settings in two hundred different apps and ticking two thousand little “opt out” buttons.
Or you can opt in to them if you desperately want to hear from the Starbucks app every single day, but you should have to go out of your way to do that and should not be the default behavior when you choose “allow notifications.” Just an idea!
However it happens, I think it’s time that power over notifications be returned to the people, not the app developers who want us to check out these Deals!
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So the author both wants notifications and doesn’t want notifications.
Got it.
Sure sounds like a problem of their own making. And I find iOS’s notification taming rather simple to use. So I use it, and amazingly I have less notifications because of it!
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