LPT: If you remove any and all notifications, including from social media and messages, your life is a lot less stressful. I did it and I really enjoy. I'm not live text answering anyone, if it's urgent call me.
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The thought of people potentially calling me makes me more anxious than any notification I could mute combined
Exactly. I leave text notifications on so that I see them right away and never have to take a phone call. All other notifications can be disabled. If it's urgent, you can text me.
I also unsubscribed from 90% of the emails I get, and I made my phone not ring if the number is not in my contacts. It really does reduce stress.
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Just don't approve the notifications permission
Yeah, why would you ever give this permission to a grocery list app in the first place? I’m sure I have a bunch of apps that would be doing this to me, but I’ve never given them the chance.
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This type of bs is exactly why none of my apps are allowed to send me notifications.
To be fair, many list apps are also reminder apps.
The real tragedy of this story is that he likely can't use the back of a receipt anymore because they're all covered in advertisements
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Unless the robot has actual sentience, which I don't think will be happening any time soon and specially NOT with LLMs, I do not want it talking to me, period.
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This meme does something very interesting I think. It sacrilizes Language (even though it predates its widespread desacralization by LLMs).
Pointing out all the rational reasons why the AI bubble is bad and is destroying democracy is not working, so maybe leveraging religious terminology will work better. "Language is sacred and LLMs are profane" might just be my new justification for not using ChatGPT to people who won't listen to a 30 minute diatribe.
Notifications are the way an app reminds me it needs to be immediately uninstalled.
My Spotify wrapped was a reminder that I barely used it at all this year. Thanks for the heads up that I need to cancel that subscription 👌
Apps on my phone have a one-strike rule: the moment they send me an ad or otherwise annoy me, notifications are disabled and I reevaluate whether I need that app installed in the first place.
The best part is when they purposely use only one notification channel, so you either have to disable all of them or none of them. And it's not because they don't know you can make multiple channels, nope, it's because some product manager figured out there's a higher rate of delivery for marketing notifications if they don't let users have fine-grained control. Metrics above all else 👑
(Read this in a David Attenborough voice)
And here, we see the product manager in its natural habitat, the office boardroom. Although dark and desolate, it provides the product manager with one its most critical resources: the whiteboard. The average product manager goes through two whiteboards every meeting, and this one is no exception. Thankfully, it is well-prepared for the quarterly meeting, having found a boardroom with four whole whiteboards.
But, not all is perfect for this product manager. The natural enemy of the product manager—the project manager—has sensed activity in the boardroom. In their natural habitat, it's a constant struggle between product manager and project manager. A fight between metrics: user, or developer. Luckily for our product manager, it's not its first encounter with a project manager.
The intruding project manager takes a sip of its coffee, demanding a higher share of the metrics for its lines of code. A notification channel is 6 extra lines, and that can make the life-or-death difference between the project manager's quarterly bonus. Our product manager is unwavering, however. It has dealt with this project manager before, and it knows just how to drive it away. The product manager raises itself up and puffs out its chest, trying to scare away the project manager by marking it's territory with click-through rates and loudly mentioning the CEO.
The product manager's strategy worked. At the mention of Steve, the intruding project manager turned pale and scurried away. The product manager is safe for another day in the office.
If nobody else says it, let me say it: thank you for this.
Android switched to not allowing apps to notify you without asking first. Dunno why they didn't do it sooner.
It ends up being initially "Yes I want my app to notify me about important updates" but then the app abuses its notification privilege to start spamming you. I want my banking app to notify me when I get paid and when bills clear. I don't want my banking app to tell me about a new low interest rate I can secure on a loan.
The app at least had granular notification settings I could go in and change, but then it ends up being a periodic battle of attrition against changes to the granular notifications that are always opted in by default every time they add a new category. I turn off "offers and promotions" in an app but now it offers "recommended deals" or some garbage.
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I can't remember the last time I got a notification from an app. The second that shit happens I either disable or uninstall.
People…don’t just uninstall the apps when they do this. Go leave a 1-star review in whichever app store you use, and say it’s because of these nagging notifications. 1-star reviews are the weapon with which people can punish poorly behaving devs.
i usually just... withdraw the notification privileges of an app
my phone is only ever allowed to show notification from the following apps - bank, weather, calendar, phone, messages, and my mood tracking app
The ones that irritate me are to do list apps. I need checkboxes to tick off so I don't forget shit. I don't need you insinuating yourself into my life beyond that. You do not need my email address.
When it asks for permission for notifications just say no instead of being that person who just presses yes/ok to everything that ever pops up.
The problem comes when the app has an actual useful purpose for notifications, but it also chooses to send this type of bullshit. So I allow notifications, and immediately uninstall any app that abuses that permission.
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This is how I feel about autocorrect changing words completely...
I'm sorry are you seriously tyring to tell me what I meant to say!? I said what I meant to say you arrogant fuck!
Seriously. I know when to use it's vs its. If I meant to type we're instead of were, I would have. Stop it!
I wish I could dial it back without turning it off completely.
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I do this with Windows 11. Every time microsoft tries some bullshit "hey you need to install this" or "hey how about you use this" or some other shit, I turn off as many options I can and uninstall even more of the system out of pure hatred. I wish I could just install linux on that computer, but I can't get my two essential programs to work, so I'm stuck with the garbage I fucking hate more and more every day
I hope you can be free of it one day. I'm 4 months into Linux now and have not looked back. I was fortunate enough to not need any windows-exclusive apps.
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most people are actually fine with this. the "i dont care" the "i dont have anything to hide" the "man i wish i could do something about the ads, oh well" crowd. eventually we have let big tech grow on us, and we have encouraged the beast the bite us as he pleases.
Human brains are all susceptible to pattern triggers, although the exact parameters for the trigger vary from person to person. This is essential for survival of our species - among other things, it's why most parents keep taking care of even difficult children who make their lives miserable.
Game and social media companies have really fine-tuned the methods to trigger the most money spending among the highest percentage of the population. Not spending on value, but spending compulsively and addictively. And like addicts to all things, most victims will fight tooth and nail against the idea their behavior was influenced by the algorithm, which makes it really difficult to get momentum for government regulations.
I have some hope from how our society has developed better methods for preventing and responding to opioid addiction. Still a long ways to go, but addiction is more widely recognized as a disease and not a personal failing; access restrictions have reduced the rate of new people becoming addicted; the most effective treatments like Suboxone are gaining traction over the preachy "just be miserable without drugs" programs. Similarly with overeating (food addiction) and the new weight loss drugs - an effective treatment existing has really opened people's eyes to systemic changes being more effective than preachy moralizing "just eat less".
So hopefully we will get laws that are enforced against predatory dark patterns. Someday.
As a European it has been interesting over the last decade to see a whole new family of predatory dark patterns emerge after the implementation of GDPR. The regulation that was intended to safeguard privacy, to a large extent is underwriting companies defaulting to spying on you for no gain to yourself. It’s an uphill battle.
Most people are NOT fine with this. Most people actually hate this, and a lot of people just put up with it, some go as far as to block notifications.
I think most people have not dedicated enough brain space to the concept of software to contemplate re-configuring their notifications, but are vexed by them constantly.
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I like this. Really drives home robot slavery which has been my dream for awhile. I really just need a house keeping robot. I dont need to fuck it or anything. Just all housework and repairs.
Basically a Mr. Handy! Name is sus I know, but Fallout fans will know
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I have to have Facebook messenger installed because it's the only way I have to contact several out-of-date friends and family. Notifications enabled for the same reason. It will send a notification when you get a message. Ok.
If you happen to leave that notification there to say, maybe check that message later, it will send a second notification to remind you of the first notification.
Oh, it also makes loud annoying noises when you or someone else is typing in a chatroom.
Fuck Facebook messenger. With a rusty hammer. Sideways. In a vat of acid.
The worst is when you want to uninstall an app on your computer and it straight up starts GUILT TRIPPING YOU. Motherfucker, you're just making me MORE likely to uninstall your shit and never return. I'm 31. I don't have time for this crap, and I definitely do not have time to be given a "please don't go 🥺" by a bunch of lines of code.
Because if you give business access to your eyeballs, they with use that access to advertise to you. Cuz we're just rabble to be poked and prodded to give up our money.
Mimo is cool with it lol.
They send you reminders to go back and learn and if you ignore them for...I believe over a week? They send last notification that goes something like this:
"These notifications don't seem to work so we'll stop them now. Have fun and remember we're here when you want to get back!"
Like. Reading that automatically made me more positive towards the app xD
Thats the ticket
I used FilterBox to block spammy notifications.
You haven't blocked any spammy notifications in while.
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