Sean CoatesJul 4, 2023

A really annoying dark pattern I see over and over:

- start using an app or service
- agree to receive notifications such as “your car is here” or “someone replied to you”
- time passes
- app or service starts abusing notifications to get me to engage via promotions or even plain advertising

Often my easiest recourse there is to turn off the app’s notification privileges.

Abusive, short-sighted, and dumb. You’re never getting that permission back.

Show threadJos 
@sean I really really want one of the mobile platforms to force apps to separate promotional notifications from service notifications. So tired of having to leave Doordash or Lyft or Wegmans (or, or, or… list goes on and on) notifications on in order to receive the ones I need about things arriving or problems with an order, only to be buried by stupid promotional notifications the other 98% of the time.
Jul 4, 2023 at 7:25pmWeb
Show threadSean CoatesJul 4, 2023
@castillar Yep. I’ve thought about exactly this. Punishment for abusing the separation: global notification ban for your app for 1 day, doubles on every infraction.
Show threadDaphne🏳️‍⚧️Jul 6, 2023
@castillar @sean I know iOS has per app options to still receive "time sensitive" notifications even when rest of the notifications are disabled or sent to a digest. Not sure how strong they are enforcing the guidelines on them, but seems to have cleaned up the notification spam I used to see a lot after I switched the noisy apps to digest / time sensitive only.
Show threadJos Jul 6, 2023
@clawswords I should give that a shot and see how much difference it makes!