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rOzeclawz Follow 2d ago

what the fuck makes phone apps so cocky as to send me notifications telling me to use it. my grocery list app straight up went "you havent made a list in a while!" are you out of your fucking mind. you are a program. why are you speaking to me like youre my equal. i could replace you with a pen and the back of a receipt. idiot. i kill you now

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[–] cron@feddit.org 119 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The worst are apps that send ads through notifications.

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 1 day ago

That's an instant uninstall for me

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The worst is when an otherwise great app does that! And they also send really important notifications too, so you can’t just disable notifications!

[–] cron@feddit.org 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Many apps have "notification channels" (on android), to customize what notifications you get. You could choose to disable some notifications and keep others.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are apps able to lie though? Say, by putting ads into the same channel as essential notifications?

[–] elvith@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes and some do it constantly. Other have say two channels and just name them like “important stuff” and “really important stuff” and just mix ads in both.

There was a time, when the Amazon App complained every time you opened it (and every few pages of browsing) that not all notifications were allowed and constantly nagged you to turn them on, if you disabled any categories in the app or notification channels.

Yeah so the feature actually sounds completely useless against a determined adver~~sary~~tiser. At the very least, apps should have no way of knowing whether notifications are turned on, including no means of knowing whether a notification was displayed or not.

App stores should also make a policy of banning apps that don’t explicitly keep all their ads in an advertising channel.

[–] cron@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Probably yes. But most apps probably behave well

The type of app to send you ads through your notifications are the type that don't implement this, bundle them with "important" things, or just straight up lie.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Probably depends on the developer. Friendly independent neighborhood developer? Well behaved. Corporate app developer? Get fucked pleb.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Send a bug report every single time it happens.

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 12 points 1 day ago

Issue #363 - My phone notified me about an add

Issue #366 - My phone have notified me about ads twice

Issue #372 - My phone have notified me about ads three times

That's the good stuff.

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Starbucks does it for me. The same notification channel is for orders and "announcements" which is essentially ads

Ya, easy. Stop going to Starbucks. They union bust by closing stores to shit on their employees. Terrible company. If you are a patron of Starbucks, you earned that shitty app and all that comes with it.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You forgot the ones that decide they need to play their own sounds to accompany the notification.

It took exactly one time of the Taco Bell app making my phone do their stupid bong sound for me to swear off taco bell for life.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

making my phone do their stupid bong sound

-Rapid bubbling- -Short burst of coughs- “Bruh, we should totally get munchies.”

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

No, their stupid bong sound. Not a welcome bong sound.

I’m looking at you ESPN