Notification Notifications
I know you've said you don't want them on twenty times now, but I think the twenty-first time is the charm.
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I love how Facebook sends me an email to tell me someone sent me a message that doesnāt tell me the content of that message.
One of the reasons I stopped Facebook was the āneedy girlfriendā notifications. Normal notifications were fine, but then if I didnāt open the app for more than two days it would just make up that I had one. Not make up a notification, but would notify me that I had notifications. It would then turn out I did not.
āA page you follow posted an event you might be interested in.ā Yuck.
I actually used to be a part of the beta testing group for the Android client. At some point they made it impossible to sort your feed by āmost recentā. Everybody complained about it. That was the point where it became pretty clear that Facebook doesnāt really give a shit what its users want. Theyāre certainly not the only scummy social media company, but they are pretty high up there.
Not just facebookā¦ Literally every platform thats hungry for traffic pulls that shit.
I havenāt logged into my Facebook account for about six years and they still send me emails that my friends have posted something. Not the posts, mind you, just that someone I know posted something.
They donāt care if you see the posts, if you donāt go to Facebook.com and look at their ads youāre dead to them.
Seems like it would be less annoying to sign in to turn those off. I like to keep a neat inbox
Social media? The fucking eyeglasses website I use keeps begging me for notifications.
The 2FA app i have to use for work to connect to the VPN every time I open it asks to enable push notifications. I always tell it no and block it from even accessing the internet because I donāt trust it and it feels sketchy.
That could be basic app permissions so that it can pop up when a login occurs. I use it for my connection and thatās the workflow: log in normally, extra dialog pops up asking for 2fa, and a thing with that 2fa pops up on my phone. Mineās the normal Microsoft āAuthenticatorā app, though.
goes incognito to search something dumb
HEY YOULL GET BETTER RESULTS IF YOU LOG INTO YOUR GOOGLE ACCOUNT -chrome, that knows Iām incognito
Iām rapidly approaching the point where I just want to turn off (or mock-out) parts of the Browser JS API across the board. Plugin detection is one, this is another.
For some reason my brain red the last panel as āHoly Fucking Yes Shit!ā And now I prefer that version.
Would you like to rate your app 5 stars?
I'll rate it 1 now because I've told you NO 3 times and you won't stop asking.
I donāt have any mainstream socials, instead itās literally everything else online wanting my contact info and wanting to send me notifications for anything and everything.
If an app doesnāt honor my wishes, Iāll forcibly disable their notifications through the OS settings.
āwe canāt seem to offer you notifications, so we locked your account. please call 888-fuck-you to discuss a solution for this situation.ā