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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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[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 6 points 5 months ago

iOS has this too, including silencing/blocking indefinitely, just for 24 hours, or just 1 hour.

But the problem is that these asshole apps often bank on the fact that you need notifications for some things in their app and don’t want to disable all because you’ll miss those.

See apps like OfferUp that don’t let you turn off all the spam crap they push because it’ll make you miss shipping notifications or messages about your orders.