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Android had a good idea that the scumbag MBAs and marketers ruined. Whenever I get a spammy notification from an app I'd prefer to not uninstall, it's always l
by Larrikin 3y ago
Android had a good idea that the scumbag MBAs and marketers ruined.
Whenever I get a spammy notification from an app I'd prefer to not uninstall, it's always logged under a general category that is mixed in with notifications that I want. Amazon for example has channels for Alexa, account authentication, and then a notifications category.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y agoThis tribalism is flat-out childish. A “good idea” that doesn’t stand up to adversarial actors isn’t a “good idea”. And I assure you that your developer buddies were just as complicit as the evil business-people and marketers in ruining it.
- Larrikin 3y agoThis is a poor argument. Don't murder is a good idea for a law even if it doesn't stop everyone. Most apps do implement channels correctly, because if they don't they get uninstalled. I've also been happy with my career. I've only had one scummy feature handed to me my first week at a job. I called out the product manager for it during a full engineering team meeting, asking him if he thought our customers were stupid, and earned a lot of good will with the other engineers for calling him on his shit. He was fired within the year, I'm still on the team, and that implementation is now gone.
- JoshTko 3y agoDo you have first hand knowledge of who initiated this change?
- hennell 3y agoBest app I've bought for android in years is buzz kill which lets you auto dismiss notifications that match certain terms or icons, or cool down apps so they can only notify you once in x mins etc. it's really tidied up my notifications queue