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It's galling that using notifications for ads is allowed by the marketplaces.
by caturopath 5y ago
It's galling that using notifications for ads is allowed by the marketplaces.
- greyface- 5y agohttps://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#4.5.4 https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#4.5... 4.5.4 Push Notifications must not be required for the app to function, and should not be used to send sensitive personal or confidential information. Push Notifications should not be used for promotions or direct marketing purposes unless customers have explicitly opted in to receive them via consent language displayed in your app’s UI, and you provide a method in your app for a user to opt out from receiving such messages. Abuse of these services may result in revocation of your privileges. In practice it's not enforced, though.
- eloisius 5y agoDear god I wish they would, or segregate notifications into channels that can be subscribed to, or require developers to submit a template for each notification[0], or let me match with a regex. Anything. Notifications should strictly be for notifying me about things I asked to be notified about. Not spam. It seems sort sighted for Apple to let their notification system become a spam tube, it just devalues their platform. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27459256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27459256