I think it's vital to strictly manage what notifications we allow our phones to give us. Unfortunately, I've noticed a trend where apps are becoming less cooperative. Many apps will have a single all-or-nothing notification setting. Others have dozens of vague, poorly-labelled categories. And all of this is hidden several clicks deep in configuration settings. The result is that we can't be sure which notifications to allow because they are important (your food is here, your credit card has a security alert) and which are just marketing bullshit, which is almost all of them.
I'd like to see a regulation requiring all notifications to be opt-in at app installation, with appropriate separation of notification categories, thereby putting the onus on the company to tell us why we should let them have our attention in each specific way.
I also think it's vital to have our phones silenced (including vibration) for nearly all notifications all of the time. But that's more for my personal benefit.
Like Uber notifications- you don’t want to miss any alerts for your trip, but then they abuse your trust and send you app updates, discounts or upselling
They probably did all of this to increase some KPI. The more fine grained authorization system problem resulted in less interactions. A lot of applications have too many incentives to keep you engaged as long as possible.
I think apple has a nice setting where you can disable all notifications after a certain time slot in the evening. But this only works in the evenings, during the day they can still spam all day long.
At this point i cannot trust application developers anymore so we probably need an additional layer between the application and the OS to filter the notifications. If applications do not want to give you fine grained permissions. All you can do is give the application the permission and then have an additional layer filter the notifications with some kind of firewall rule.
A notification management system sounds like something that needs to exist, but how would it work if companies don't adhere to standards? I don't see any way out of this that doesn't first involve legislation.
Technology moves really fast and laws move really slow. Hence i would prefer if we had a solution that would not require this kind of legislative intervention. But as you say a lot of applications will not play nice. And neither google nor apple really has the incentive to fix it on their side. Only an outside force could force this but i do not see how you would legislate this in a future proof way. And it would probably need to become a legislation adopted by multiple big companies before they would roll it out to all countries.
I would trust that about as much as I trust their spam filtering, which is very little. And notifications are usually a lot more important than any given email these days.
That's super weird to me because spam filtering works amazingly for me. I don't think I will buy an iPhone because of how well the machine learning based features on Android have been working on my pixel.
That would be nuts. What would be the incentive for people to “opt in” to marketing spam? Get 10% off your next order if you leave marketing notifications on for 1 month?
Also the UI would be a mess. UX would be terrible. Most people would probably ignore the massive list of options, and then complain later as to why the app isn’t notifying them :dead:
If you leave marketing spam on, you get notified on cupons and deals, seems fine for me if you want to. I don't have a problem with stores notifying me on deals on my wishlist.
I'd like to see a regulation requiring all notifications to be opt-in at app installation, with appropriate separation of notification categories, thereby putting the onus on the company to tell us why we should let them have our attention in each specific way.
I also think it's vital to have our phones silenced (including vibration) for nearly all notifications all of the time. But that's more for my personal benefit.