Had similar ideas - I share the author's frustration in India, the delivery apps and banking apps are the worst culprits. I wonder if the regulators can be ask

Had similar ideas - I share the author's frustration in India, the delivery apps and banking apps are the worst culprits. I wonder if the regulators can be asked to extend the "Do Not Call" registry to include barring such app notifications? For example, the National Do Not Call Registry in my country has now been renamed to National Customer Preference Register (NCPR). This now gives indians more fine-grained options to choose what kind of marketing calls we want to bar or receive: > “Transactional message” means a message triggered by a transaction performed by the subscriber, who is also the sender’s customer, provided such a message is sent within 30 minutes of the transaction being performed and is directly related to it. Provided that the transaction may be a banking transaction, delivery of OTP, purchase of goods or services, etc. ... “Unsolicited commercial communication or UCC” means any commercial communication that is neither as per the consent nor as per registered preference(s) of recipient, but shall not include: (i)Any transactional message or transactional voice call ... Source: TRAI regulation - https://trai.gov.in/sites/default/files/DraftUCCRegulation29052018.pdf https://trai.gov.in/sites/default/files/DraftUCCRegulation29... They can extend this to mobile OS notifications and ask Google, Apple, Samsung etc. (mobile OS makers) to ensure that all promotional messages through such notifications are blocked, and only "transactional messages" are allowed.