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What about fraud alerts? Eg your bank notifying you that strange activity is happening on your account, or someone is trying to buy a car using your credit?
by alberth 5y ago
What about fraud alerts?
Eg your bank notifying you that strange activity is happening on your account, or someone is trying to buy a car using your credit?
- zapzupnz 5y agoThat's an alert from "people", for a stretched definition of what "people" means. A bank is full of people who (purportedly) represent your interests, so the notification is from their fraud team, not a machine. Per se.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoIt's from a machine (the bank's computer), on behalf of people (the bank). Just like the a notification about the new Safari :(
- ninkendo 5y agoI think the difference in magnitude turns it into a difference in kind. Fraud alerts are something I asked to have sent to me, so to me it’s more of a tool doing its job. A tool I chose to use. Similarly if I decide I wanted to be alerted about severe weather, a notification isn’t just “technology contacting me”, it’s a tool I use, performing its expected function.
- d0gbread 5y agoIt seems like your rule is a lot of complexity all to say you don't like push notifications, toasts, or modals that are advertisements.
- zapzupnz 5y agoOf course it's from the computer. It's an electronic message. What a weird and pointless distinction. It's still programmed to do that on behalf of the bank's fraud department, a service done by people at the bank that you engage to protect your money. It's a service. Not like the Safari notification. It helps you in no way, it's not a service. It's an ad.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoI'm going to guess that there are folks at Apple who genuinely believe that they are providing a service with these notifications.