[orangepanda]

And receive unrelated spam? No thanks. While emails and texts are fine, I 100% would not trust linked in with push notifications

[nicoburns]

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.

[dmd]

Good for you. I get dozens a day.

[nicoburns]

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?

[dmd]

Mostly first party.

[nicoburns]

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.

[infinityplus1]

Doesn't Android allow you to select which category of notifications you want to receive? That can be useful here.

[kevincox]

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.

[sodality2]

What applications do that?

[kevincox]

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.