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No, I don't allow notifications for any app or function on any device. I'm highly technically competent. When I look at my older parents' phones and see the no
by MacsHeadroom 4y ago
No, I don't allow notifications for any app or function on any device.
I'm highly technically competent. When I look at my older parents' phones and see the notification hell they're dealing with, I wonder how anyone ever thought notifications were a good idea?!
Back when notifications meant email, IM, and updates they were fine. Now everything wants to grab your attention. So now none of them get my attention, not even calls or text messages.
- matheusmoreira 4y ago> I wonder how anyone ever thought notifications were a good idea? It is a good idea if one assumes notifications is a high signal/noise ratio communications channel where only important stuff gets sent. Of course, what happened is advertisers discovered this new exciting opportunity to spam people with their offers and drive up "engagement" so now notifications are actively hostile to users to the point they're better off disabled. Just like phone calls: there's no point in picking up the phone when 99% of all calls are automated advertiser calls.
- xigoi 4y agoWhy are you allowing advertisers to hijack your notifications?
- matheusmoreira 4y agoI'm not. I disabled notifications for everything but WhatsApp. That's my point: I couldn't trust any other app because of their spamminess so I just took away their privilege. Had they behaved themselves, I would have allowed them to notify me, but they didn't. It got to the point my phone carrier started spamming me with ads via SMS so I rooted the phone in order to disable SMS and phone call notifications. I would have uninstalled the telephony apps if I could.