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Why is this even surprising? Having your devices advertise to you, crying for your attention 24/7, is pretty much what push notifications are for. Why not lev
by JasonFruit 5y ago
Why is this even surprising? Having your devices advertise to you, crying for your attention 24/7, is pretty much what push notifications are for. Why not leverage it to advertise Bing? It's not like people are going to stop using it, after all; we've proven that.
- grishka 5y agoNo, push notifications were invented for a very useful purpose — to notify you when something has happened. You know, emails, instant messages, social media interactions, all that kind of stuff. But then some bright minds figured out that they can also be used to try to manipulate you into doing something that would make the charts go up, since charts going up is apparently the single most important thing in the modern IT industry.
- swiley 5y agoIf you read modern documentation and tutorials for push APIs integrated into OSes[1] they'll tell you that the purpose of push notifications is to remind the user that your app is installed and encourage them to open it. [1]not IMAP IDLE and leaving a socket open, that's not allowed anymore. the app servers connect to the service and if there's new data it must be relayed through the OS vendor's push server which the OS leaves a connection open to and will cause a notification to appear on the "end user's" device.
- grishka 5y agoYes, I meant that exact kind of push notifications like APNS and GCM. If you have an official app for your own service, you simply implement them on your backend. If you're making a third-party app for something, then yes, it's inconvenient, especially if that something doesn't cooperate. Though some services that have open APIs offer you a form to specify your APNS/GCM credentials.