For me, it's quite straightforward. If an app makes an unsolicited spammy push, it's notifications-off. No exceptions.

dylan604 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Snapchat has to be the all time worst offender to me about abusive level of notifications. Luckily, you can turn them off, but holy cow batman, that's a lot of notification options to deal with.

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al_borland 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

For me the worst is NextDoor. I don’t have the app installed, but they also have email notifications. There are seemingly 100 options and I turned them all off when I first made the account. Periodically they add new ones and auto-enable them for everyone. There is not universal way to shut them off, short of blocking them all together or deleting my account. The account was such a pain to setup that I’m hesitant to delete it, for the 1 time every couple years where it’s useful.

	▲	slater 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Even worse with ND e-mails are how they've absolutely perfected the cut-off character limit for what's being posted in your area. So my inbox is just perma-barraged with click-bait-y "This place on Smith Street has the best...", "Health officials are investigating an outbreak of...", etc.

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iamacyborg 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Remember when Android used to let notification senders hijack turning your screen on, Snapchat used that one a lot.

	▲	maest 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's "growth hacking" for you

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Esophagus4 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes. I’d rather live with the temporary inconvenience of needing to open the Uber app to check the status of my ride once a month than wade through notification spam on an intermittent basis forever.