[izzydata]

I've only recently heard of push notifications. I feel like we are being inundated with so many notifications that we now need a super notifications. Where does this notification creep end? Normal notifications should be perfectly acceptable if things weren't spamming that method to begin with. I feel like notifications and eventually push notifications will go the way of the phone call. You won't even bother looking at them anymore because you know it has such a high chance of being nothing.

At any rate anything that puts an ad in my notifications is as good as uninstalled. I'm already unsure how to turn off the news push notifications that I'm getting now.

[hundchenkatze]

If you've used iOS or Android within the last 12 or so years then you've almost certainly received push notifications.

Google introduced Google Cloud Messaging [0] in 2007 and Apple introduced Apple Push Notification service in 2008 [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Messaging

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Push_Notification_servic...

[rconti]

I'm not clear what you think push notifications are. They're what you seem to describe as "normal notifications".

The news notifications you're getting are the same push notifications that other apps have had for over a decade.

The most unfortunate thing is that, if you configure settings inside an app, half the time it's disrespected and that setting is changed later. It's safer to change in the Notifications center in iOS (eg, in the phone preferences, rather than in the app preferences).