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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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This app to meet new people relentlessly sends you a "redeem your free ticket" notification, sometimes 10 in an hour . With no way to disable this type of notification in-app (v.redd.it)

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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And newer versions of Android have notification categories for each app, so if the developer does their homework I can turn off particular notification types and let other through, so you can have a messaging app that actually only notifies you of actual messages.

A long list of stuff that I don't care about in Messenger

Really cuts down on the background noise of these kinds of apps.

[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So if the developer does their homework I can turn off particular notification types and let others through

Experience shows that most apps, especially the ones where you would want to disable a subset of their notifications, do not support that.
So in most cases I will just disable them completely and if I feel generous I will remind them about this feature via a play store review.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

I think it's becoming a play store requirement for apps to use various "notification channels" or whatever it's called, so hopefully the all or nothing behaviour will disappear in time.

Orrrr as you say apps get totally silenced / uninstalled, I don't have the patience for that kind of stuff anymore.