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hopefully uncontroversial: only a tiny fraction of push notifications are in the user's best interests

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Jun 8, 2021

Notifications are distracting; I turn them off everywhere it’s possible. I like Apple’s new approach: to batch notifications to be delivered a few times per day.

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I love the Android feature that lets you block notifications by category, at sub-app granularity. The thing I don't understand is why apps support it. Do they think anybody WANTS marketing notifications? Or just counting on people not knowing about the feature?

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They support it so you disable only a subset of their notifications instead of completely disabling them.

10:06 PM · Jun 8, 2021Twitter Web App

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