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by infinityplus1 1489 days ago
Why do you have to check anything manually? Just install their apps and receive push notifications for them. You can also make the notifications silent to reduce distractions.

Or if your phone supports notification badges on icons, just place their icons on home screen and you'll notice what app has updates by just checking the badge counts.
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orangepanda 1489 days ago
And receive unrelated spam? No thanks. While emails and texts are fine, I 100% would not trust linked in with push notifications
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nicoburns 1489 days ago
Who sends you personal messages on LinkedIn? Personally, I don't even trust LinkedIn to have an app installed on my phone. But I haven't received even a single spam notification from any of the major chat platforms.
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dmd 1489 days ago
Good for you. I get dozens a day.
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nicoburns 1489 days ago
Are these first-party messages from the platform, or is it more akin to spam email where they're just letting through spam messages from spammers?
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dmd 1489 days ago
Mostly first party.
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nicoburns 1489 days ago
Interesting. I have all of WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal and Telegram (+ SMS and email, but I'm guessing these aren't the issue) installed on my phone with notifications enabled, and I only get notified when I receive a message. I'd be interested to know which services are spamming you.
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infinityplus1 1489 days ago
Doesn't Android allow you to select which category of notifications you want to receive? That can be useful here.
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kevincox 1489 days ago
The problem is that it is a blacklist not a whitelist. So these apps that spam a lot just create a new category every week.

It would be fantastic if you could switch some apps to whitelist mode.

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sodality2 1489 days ago
What applications do that?
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kevincox 1489 days ago
The Google Search/Assistant app seems to be one of the worst that I have installed. No matter how many categories I mute I seem to get a new spam notification every couple of weeks. Unfortunately there are 2-3 useful notification categories so I haven't completely shut it down now. Google Maps also used to be pretty bad for this but I don't seem to recall any new categories for many months now.
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