Yo! Companies on the Web: Find The Courage To Say Never

Years ago when Apple and others started allowing websites viewed in a browser to send notifications I knew we were headed to the mess things eventually turned into.

Sure, you can turn off notifications from individual websites, and I do. But in reality that’s just another wack-a-mole game that takes advantage of most users not having the time or wanting to do the necessary pruning. Whether websites are asking you to subscribe, or receive notifications it doesn’t really matter. Website notifications are just another fart noise on the enshittified web that stinks up the joint.

You’d think that website publishers would actually want to know who they turn off with their tactics, but that’s probably too much truth to handle. “Hey, boss. The majority of our users never want to see a notification from us.”

In my opinion, there’s an easy way to do so if companies have the guts to face the truth. Just add a button on any of those drop down notifications that says “Never.”

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𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘅:

#Github #Git #Notifications #Octobox

https://thewhale.cc/posts/octobox

Octobox is the tool for developers working on GitHub who find notifications infuriating. If you don’t want to miss another mention, if you don’t want misplace another issue and, if you don’t want to manage your workflow though email: you need to try Octobox.

@moshidon Can we have a notifications display tab that only shows the @mention posts we haven't interacted with? Any interaction would remove a post from the tab; replying, Favouriting, Boosting, Quoting, or Reporting (and obviously Muting and Blocking).

#UX #notifications #MentionManagement

ntfy v2.21.0 released with deferred delivery (scheduled messages), sound parameter support for iOS/Android, and various bug fixes. The self-hosted push notification server that respects your privacy keeps getting better. No Google, no Apple, no middleman—just your server, your notifications. Deferred delivery is the killer feature here. Self-hosted notifications done right. 📱✅

#ntfy #selfhosted #notifications #privacy #homelab

Source: https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/releases

I wonder if this will kill the government's ability to surveil people via their notifications.

Apple Sets Privacy Rules for Third-Party Access to Live Activities and Notifications

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/31/apple-sets-privacy-rules-live-activities-alerts/

#Apple #Privacy #LiveActivities #Notifications #Security #Tech

Chemnitzer-Linuxtage-Nachlese Teil 1:

Das Datenschutz-Problem mit Push-Benachrichtigungen – sehr eindringlich und unterhaltsam erklärt von Merle Fäller

Ich wollte nur Zulip-Notifications auf dem Handy. Also habe ich angefangen, selbst was zu bauen – und bin in ein Rabbit Hole gefallen.
Dieser Vortrag erzählt die Geschichte, wie ich versucht habe, ein Problem zu lösen – und dabei verstanden habe, wie Push-Notifications wirklich funktionieren. Warum mein erster Ansatz nicht skaliert. Warum fast jede App Firebase oder APNs nutzt. Warum selbst Signal bei Google anklopft. Und warum das seit dem Wyden-Brief von 2023 ein dokumentiertes Privacy-Problem ist: »We kill people based on metadata.«
Ich zeige, welche Alternativen es mit UnifiedPush und ntfy gibt, wie ich eine Bridge für Zulip gebaut habe, und warum das gleiche Problem auch für Prometheus-Alerts, Grafana-Notifications und CI/CD-Pipelines gilt. Und was das mit digitaler Souveränität zu tun hat.

https://media.ccc.de/v/clt26-143-warum-selbst-signal-bei-google-und-apple-anklopft

#google #notifications #firebaseCloudMessaging #gcm #firebase #fcn #apple #apn #ntfy #UnifiedPush #zulip #messenger #instantMessenger #clt2026

"As a Windows user, I'd like useful notifications from my app to show up on my PC."

"As the Phone Link app PM, I am incentivized to spam the user with reactivation messages to meet my MAU KPI and not get laid off from Microsoft."

Conflict of interests. And lack of patience for this god damn 💩.

#Windows #PhoneLink #notifications #spam

.. I probably should clear the notifications ASAP…

#Notifications #Ivory

From Mother Jones magazine: #IMMIGRATION
This #Programmer Wants to Use Your #Phone to #Fight #ICE
Sherman Austin’s #text #alerts are #powering #community #defense.
Article by DAVID PEISNER
MARCH 26, 2026

His #cellphone buzzes constantly, mostly #notifications requiring his attention from StopICE.net, a #crowdsourced #nationwide #alert #system he developed to let users know when #federal immigration #officers are nearby.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/stopice-immigration-alerts-sherman-austin/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-03-27-2026