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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“You haven’t given us your data in a while!”
“You are right, I’m not using you. Uninstalled.”
The worst are apps that send ads through notifications.
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!
Many apps have “notification channels” (on android), to customize what notifications you get. You could choose to disable some notifications and keep others.
Are apps able to lie though? Say, by putting ads into the same channel as essential notifications?
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
sarytiser. 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.
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.
Send a bug report every single time it happens.
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.
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.
I’m looking at you ESPN
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.
making my phone do their stupid bong sound
-Rapid bubbling- -Short burst of coughs- “Bruh, we should totally get munchies.”
No, their stupid bong sound. Not a welcome bong sound.
That’s an instant uninstall for me
This is why on newer Android versions you can just flat out reject being allowed to send notifications.
I will talk to you when I need it, not the other way around.
This. I shut off all notifications from nearly all of my apps. Primary text app, phone app, and just a couple of others. I may temporarily allow them for a special purpose, but once that’s over they all get silenced and I get to them when I get to them. I hate badge notifications, too. So, those are off for EVERYTHING. Grad school cemented that aversion.
At that point why not just disallow it from running in the background?
Some apps still need to be able to do that to perform their function, but generally speaking yeah, you could
What sort of apps would need real-time running if not to send notifications? Like logging software?
Playing music, viewing weather forecast at a glance, fitness tracking, that kind of stuff
Calendar programs that send notifications, chat applications where you want instant notifications, email clients, package delivery ones where you’d be notified about deliveries, mental wellbeing apps that remind you to do things or to complete a journal entry or log, etc.
I had no idea people didn’t do this! First notification I get from an app that isn’t some form of messaging, straight to settings and turn off notifications.
People are getting notifications from news apps. Apart from actual World War Fuckin Three, what possible news story could be worth being disturbed by your phone for?!?
My phone hasn’t made a sound in years. It’s hard on silent and all notifications* go to my watch so it can tap my wrist quietly and politely. _ *I say “all”, but it’s calls, messages, and reminders. General purpose apps aren’t allowed to talk to me.
Well before the current Android version, you had to manually go into the settings of the app or your phone to disable them. Now you get this on first boot of the app:
This makes it a lot easier to reject them immediately
WW3 have that unblockable Presidential Alert emergency notification. There’s no escape. 😔
Unless one disabled the correct system APK through ADB of course.
Unless one lives in one of the 194 of the 195 countries on the planet, which is extremely fuckin likely
What?! I don’t even have a president!
“I don’t even have a president!” -Cheryl Tunt
It increases engagement and that’s what the developer wants, especially if there are ads or purchases in the app. So you might hate it but it works.
The only engagement it gets after an unwanted notification is the uninstall button.
Damn engagers, ruining it for the rest of us.
One more reason why i prefer Open Source. There, apps get made for utility, not for money.
And popularized by utility, not profit or market share
Or ad campaigns! Don’t forget terrible products that are popularized by ads alone!
The only apps that can give me notifications are my messenging app my phone app and my email app. The rest get notifications blocked on install.
DATA me NEED DATA
I AM A DIVINE BEING
Sad reality is that most things want to get you hooked and engaged in some way or another. Heck, even websites show you native device notifications now if you allow them, but I guess it’s easier for an app to get you to agree to that, even if the app is just a website wrapper…
the only apps that are allowed to speak to me are messengers, weather, and my bank. Nothing else has speaking privileges.
Lol, I would never allow my bank app to speak to me. “Dude, you’re broke as f***!”. I know, no need to announce it on a full bus.
was thinking more “hey you just got your paycheque :)” and “someone in Cambodia is trying to access your banking account”
Any app that does shit like that immediately loses notification privileges. At the very least. If it’s something that I don’t need (thanks for reminding me, app), then I will just remove it.
I wish there was a more punitive option. Like, yeah, I disallowed notifications, but I also had a leaky gallon of liquid shit delivered to the CEO’s home.
The most punitive thing you can do is give it a 1 star review.
As it so happens it’s also the nicest thing you can do for everybody else since it makes it less likely people will download that app.
No application should have this privilege by default. I only gives it to apps that can’t work without it.
Sometimes I put directions into Maps for a work thing and I have to be there before the location opens to the public and when I put the address in, before it will give me directions, the app says, “HEY, THE PLACE YOU’RE GOING MIGHT NOT BE OPEN, JUST THOUGHT YOU MIGHT WANT TO KNOW, STUPID ASSHOLE.”
It makes me unreasonably(?) furious.
Breh my job involves driving to addresses outside of their normal working hours to the general public . It is so f u c k i n g annoying to have to listen to day in and day out. Same with “traffic is heavier than usual”. Also every. Damn. Day at the same time of day.
Driving somewhere unknown, I need gas…“hey phone, take me to the nearest gas station” “okay, here’s a tiny list of gas stations to choose from, please click the one you want”
Hands free navigation at its finest.
Maybe you wouldn’t have that problem if you didn’t burn gasoline. Seems like a sensible solution to the safety concern too.
I get this happen to me too, but honestly it feels like a feature that helps more people than it annoys the rest. Even though I’m among those annoyed
It’s like when customer service call centers have 'longer than average wait times" because of “higher than average call volume” all of the fucking time. If it happens all the time, it ain’t higher than average.
The average human being has one breast and one testicle. If you’re closed at night, then all daytime activity is higher than average.
“OK, adding pen and paper to your shopping list.”
App developers should learn that the “Maybe later” button makes me delete their app.
Yes or no.
