[cgriswald]

> Why not just disable notifications

Many apps provide useful notifications but some genius somewhere realized they can get more eyeballs if they abuse the notification system. So you have to take the bad with the good or throw them both out.

What’s worse is some apps provide “fine grain control” which is supposed to allow you to decide what types of notifications you get. Some other genius had the idea to be very loose with what belongs in what category.

And yet another genius had the idea to spam email if phone notifications are disabled.

And they’ll let you disable that too... but yet another genius had the idea to “accidentally” forget all these settings.

So... I don’t know. Disable them, sure. It’s the advice that keeps on giving, I guess.