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I wish apple/google would implement better notification control - like the ability to turn off all marketing notifications, and a much better digest format
by balderdash 4mo ago
I wish apple/google would implement better notification control - like the ability to turn off all marketing notifications, and a much better digest format
- iamacyborg 4mo agoThat would be nice. I wouldn’t be surprised, as on-phone models get more capable, if we don’t see them start to build an “inbox” like we see with email where you can then start seeing much more heavy processing happening.
- gumby271 4mo agoI think that's what the Notification Organizer on Android (maybe Pixel exclusive, not sure) does. It's sorting notifications into broad categories using AI and groups them in the notification shade.
- iamacyborg 4mo agoMakes sense, Google definitely have a lot more experience in that space with gmail than Apple do.
- tencentshill 4mo agoNotification Channels is the official way to do this on Android, but it's up to the app developer to categorize them properly. They have no incentive to allow you to turn off ads.
- aag 4mo agoActually, they do have an incentive to let you turn off ads. If they don't, many users will turn off notifications entirely. At least if they categorize them, some users will just turn off the bothersome ones.
- orrito 4mo agoI'd say most people don't though, and those people might be more influential to advertisements anyways so it's a net win for them.
- asdff 4mo agoToo bad about the walled garden or you'd have this tweak already installed years ago.
- aidenn0 4mo agoI just turn off all notifications for any app that sends me marketing notifications.
- antiframe 4mo agoYou are less charitable than me. Maybe I'll adopt your approach. I first give an app the benefit of the doubt and go into the apps notification preferences and see if I can fine-tune their notifications. If not, off for all at the OS-level. If yes, I tweak it, but if I get surprised by one later, off for all at the OS-level or uninstall. It's especially annoying because I don't have notifications shown on my home screen and need to unlock with a pin so if I go through the trouble of unlocking my phone to spam and I extra annoyed with the app.
- gumby271 4mo agoIf you're on Android, I'll always recommend Buzzkill to add very granular rules for notification filtering. I set up all kinds of filters just for the Amazon app. On iOS I assume you're sol, that notification system is unhinged to my eyes.