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

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 month ago

      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.orgEnglish
        21·
        1 month ago

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

          • ich_iel@feddit.orgEnglish
            15·
            1 month ago

            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.

            • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
              9·
              1 month ago

              Yeah so the feature actually sounds completely useless against a determined adversarytiser. 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.

            • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              1 month ago

              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.eeEnglish
              1·
              1 month ago

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

        • DrDystopia@lemy.lolEnglish
          14·
          1 month 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.comEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

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

        • aphonefriend@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          6·
          1 month ago

          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.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 month ago

      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.