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It’s time for a hard reset on notifications (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I have a simple rule. If I install an app and it shows me any notification I don't want to see, I immediately block it from having permission to do that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

Not everyone has figured you can do that by long pressing the offending notification

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Same... Have done for ages now. Don't know how anyone puts up with the default behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The default now is that apps have to first request notification permissions, on both iOS and Android.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Most users are blindly accepting any and all requests by apps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah but that's really their problem. I mean, the OS literally asks them to allow it. What more can you do?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

At least Android also proactively asks them whether to disable notifications for an app if they always swipe them away, or if they haven't used the app in a long time.