I HATE apps that you installed to get legit notifications, say a doorbell camera, and they use it to push ads to you, or “premium” features. guess I’m not buying your brand anymore, bitch.
Well you won’t replace it with a pen and paper (like everybody else) cause we are addicted to our phones, that’s a big reason why many apps are cocky
speak for yourself, i just use a notification pinning app for my shopping lists!
Literally all it does it let me enter text, set an optional snooze timespan, and then it creates a persistent notification with that text which can either be dismissed for the specified timespan or deleted.
Super convenient and minimal.
Whoever wrote this has serious superiority issues
I like that iOS apps must explicitly ask for my permission to send notifications. Sadly, as my main phone is an Android device, I have to turn them off manually.
From Android 14? 13? they’ve gotta do that on Android too.
android requires permission to send notifications too as of android 13
It is a god send.
Oh, that’s great. I’m lagging behind with 11.
happy dagger time
Tangentially related, check out Grocery Genius. FOSS and I’ve been very happy with it
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.rendox.grocerygenius
I believe it was SAP Concur that my last employer used for filing expenses. Every few months it popped up a notification asking me whether or not I “loved it.” I always answered “no.” Then it wanted to know why. I think that’s inappropriate behavior in a professional setting, and I told it so. Regardless, it kept asking the same thing, so I asked if it wanted me to speak to HR.
TLDR got sexually harassed by an app.
Report that to HR, bro, you deserve to feel safe.
The CD-Keys website changes the tab title to “We miss you” when the tab loses focus. Pisses me off enough to close it every time.
lol that’s what you get for buying gray market games from Russia.
(It’s okay I’ve done it too)
For some reason that’s a very common thing among websites where I shop for 3d printing and electronics supplies. It’s infuriating because it forces me to cycle through all the tabs to find a specific one instead of just reading it off the god damn tab title. A gross misuse of valuable screen real estate that’s normally expected to display useful information. Fuck you.
The answer: tech bros dictating that they need more “engagement” e.g. they need to collect more data so they can either sell said data or get acquired. I guarantee you very few mobile developers want to send you a notification of any sort, much less “why haven’t you used the app.”
I wish I could murder engagement driven design with a hammer.
You’re not alone.
To quote the other comment in this thread: “just use Fdroid”. No engagement driven design there.
I wish they estimated how fucking annoying their interventions were. Like you might be boosting clicks per minute in the short term, but it’s going to go down to zero after a week when I get fed up — when Netflix started auto playing videos, I threw my TV out the window.
If an app gives me more than a couple of unwanted notifications that I can’t easily disable, it’s uninstalled. Fuck that shit.
The first time an app does it I delete it. If I really need it that bad I can just redownload it when I actually need it.
Nah man, you definitely want a deal on a Lime scooter rental even though you’re 500 miles from the nearest one.
I fucking hate notifications. I either disable them entirely or delete the app. No in betweens. Remind me to use your app?..deleted.
And handling notifications is all smart watches seem to be good for!
Yea I don’t fuck with smart watches.
That’s what’s good about android, all apps need to ask if they can send notifications when first installed. I rarely allow it.
Duolingo is the only exception.
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The owl must be pleased. Noncompliance has consequences.
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I’m scared of this comment right here
If the app was any good maybe
Based
My phone my rulesYou wouldn’t put up with it on windows or Linux, why would you on your phone?
Seriously, I wish I could just set up some kind of regex filter in iOS Shortcuts or something that would let me specify what notifications to show or block.
Doesn’t help that corporate social media apps will give you controls over every single notification type except for the ones they ram down your throat daily.
I have a very specific notification in mind: I’ve opened Instagram organically maybe eight times in the past decade, but I’ll open my messages if someone send me a message there. I can’t open their shitty platform on a browser as they hate VPNs on desktop. With all due respect to the meme posters on Lemmy, the fresh brainrot my friends send me on there is much easier humor to digest than whatever mix of Everett True, Star Trek, and den Döner-Mann nicht fragen warum er nur Bargeld nimmt the Lemmy All page has for me on most days. So I keep that malware on my phone. I want a notification when they send me a message. I want a notification when someone I meet wants to follow me. I’m squarely in the lower quantile of ages on Lemmy and a lot of people I want in my life will use that platform as their primary messenger, and while it’s not ideal, I do want those notifications. You know what notification I don’t want?
See some of today’s most watched reels!
Their stupid app sent me this notification, like clockwork, about once every 23 hours.
Check out some of today’s most watched reels!
I’ve never watched a reel in my fucking life. I still call them Stories and I haven’t watched them even when they were called that. They put the button for Reels right at the bottom where all the important stuff should be, so I’ll fat finger my way into the Reels section once every three years, and it’ll still be at the tutorial screen where it tells you to swipe and tap and whatever. You can’t seek through the videos of course - not interested.
They know I’ve left it on the tutorial screen for longer than 20% of their userbase has been alive. And yet —
Check out some of today’s most watched reels!
(This is mostly an exaggeration, it was like once a week, and I left notifications off until recently because I met a group of people who use it more than my usual crowd. I have not been bombarded by unfiltered notification sewage for a decade lol)
And they didn’t have a toggle for that notification either until pretty recently. Or maybe I didn’t look hard enough. Wish everyone would stop using these apps and try hacking together a terrible HTML website like the good old days. Computers are wasted on us all. Hosting video is expensive, it must be rapaciously profitable to be trying to get everyone hooked on it.
postscript
This being Lemmy, I’m going to politely ask people to leave me be with my locked down phone OS and corporate malware. Yes yes I know, the only phone really worth using has a bare metal OS, you gotta ask your relatives to resend the family photos as ascii art so you can see your niblings in the CLI, you gotta laser out your phone’s processor’s clock and replace it with a mechanical switch that you flick back and forth so you can be 100% sure the phone isn’t running when you don’t want it to. I get it, I hear you, I’m just generally content with this phone and I’ll probably get its overpriced underwhelming successor in 5 years when I need a new one. It’s fine. It’s not a PC. The only thing missing is a headphone jack really.
I too take any unwanted notification as a potential threat: the only answer is immediate annihilation of said app. Basically the dark forest hypothesis but it’s my phone.
Dark phorest
Daurk Phaurwressed.
This right here gave me a chub to read.
By default I disable notifications for all my apps unless it is something I need notifications from. And even there I still disable notification types that I don’t care about in the settings.
Can’t other phones do this?
i think it depends on how the app is coded, on android anyway. Some apps have pretty granular control and some just gave like, two categories
I hate uber advertising stuff on my notifications which also appear on my Fitbit.
10% off flights?! OMG. SHUT THE FUCK UP.
But I DO want notifications on my wrist when my Uber driver has arrived. Psshhh
Turn them off and they’ll text you, which costs them money so they only send the necessary stuff.
You can control which apps can send notifications to fitbit, at least on Android
But I agree, the Uber ones are the worst
the only issue is that Fitbit requires it’s app to be running in the background to deliver notifications, and for some reason it wants to use internet.
The issue is with the information. Like the one above us said they want to be notified that their ride has arrived but to allow that notification you have be willing to accept advertisements as well.
It’s the reason a majority of people just straight up kill notifications. Way to many useless ones to justify the 1 in 8 that you want.
Same
The risk of people turning them off entirely must’ve been just enough to get them to offer this granularity (as seen on iOS). Not all apps are so kind (grr).
Thank you ❤️
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Roko’s Basilisk has it out for this guy
Roko’s Basilisk mfers when a minor brownout causes their “god” to die:
(even the fake-ass pretend “AI” we have nowadays is straining the global power grids. It’d take the invention of Miracle Fairy Dust Energy to make a true God-from-the-Machine physically feasible)
You’re too late, these apps are the revenge.
That is part of modern app design to increase user interaction which increases profit. Usually it’s just annoying and invasive to the user.
Users are a vessel for the share holders will.
You are so smart!
