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I'm one of those types who only uses Uber every two or three years, so I just disable notifications for it. If a ride is coming, I'll just check my phone loads.

• noprocrasted 2y ago
  To be fair, actual ads can be disabled in most of these apps. Uber has a setting for this, I had it disabled all this time and don't ever recall a single ad. The next problem however is the "feedback" plague. Every company nowadays spams you about it. It's not technically an ad, but wastes just as much of your time/attention and is completely pointless when they can instead just default all feedback to "good" unless the user explicitly says otherwise.
  • s1gsegv 2y ago
    Yeah, I don’t care if it’s an advertisement or not, my attention is a finite and scarce resource. I won’t allow it to be stolen by an app just because it suits them. Doordash is on my chopping block to replace completely at the moment, because it had spam notifications that were not categorized and no way to turn them off. That’s a “vote with your wallet” deal for me. Same with AdBlock, I got tired of seeing AdBlock tabs pop up all the time, and no clear way to disable them, so uBlock has been a recent switch for me. At least there I can’t be too bothered, because they were also admittedly not getting anything from me.