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> Displaying notifications didn’t require permissions, now after API 33, it requires POST_NOTIFICATIONS Good. Really tired of installing an app, forgetting abo
by jaoane 1y ago
> Displaying notifications didn’t require permissions, now after API 33, it requires POST_NOTIFICATIONS
Good. Really tired of installing an app, forgetting about it, and then getting a bs notification a couple of days later to get me to open it again.
- ashishb 1y ago> Really tired of installing an app, forgetting about it, I don't think that app can send a notification to you anyway. An app that's never opened by the user cannot be launched programmatically and cannot run background code.
- sumanthvepa 1y agoThey probably mean that they installed the app, used it for a little while, and then, forgot about it.
- Gortal278 1y agoYes it can, many app do it.
- cwillu 1y agoThere's a difference between “never opened” and “only opened once”, and apparently the latter is sufficient to get notification spam days later. The mcdonalds app did this to me before I uninstalled it.
- anothernewdude 1y agoI believe you can long touch the notification to see an option to uninstall the app directly from the notification.
- ashishb 1y agoExactly. I use it all the time to disable over-aggressive notifications.
- chrismorgan 1y agoAnd to disable specific categories of notifications. Unfortunately, the divisions are often done in what I can only imagine to be bad faith, so it’s not as useful as it should be. But then, most of the ones you want to disable were added in bad faith too, so it shouldn’t be a surprise.
- muzani 1y agoA lot of the changes are due to dark patterns. This was nowhere near as bad as the one that broke access to files and gallery, which would break saves for old games. There was another new breaking change on notifications, which probably prevented spoofing. I'm still in full support of these. I keep telling people that social media apps are just massive violations of privacy and can just copy your password from clipboard or trace your location through images – I've been asked to code these at one time. At least these updates keep me from thinking I'm the paranoid one.
- izacus 1y agoYep, if you look at those changes Android developers are whining about, it's mostly all curbing abusive apps, adding security and fixing privacy issues.