[snuxoll]

They wanted you to turn on push on mobile so they could pollute your Lock Screen with ads. I did it and promptly set iOS to deliver them silently because it got really annoying, but it was an easy way for the EFF to get some money from purchases I was making anyway.

[deelowe]

I'm honestly surprised smile went on for as long as it did. It always seemed so out of character for Amazon.

[__blockcipher__]

It was also in this weird spot where they wanted to use it for PR but simultaneously wanted to shove it beneath the floorboards so people won’t mass adopt it.

[crazysim]

On android they did the asshole thing and detected if the notifications were disabled and turned off smile. No ios hiding the true notification state there.

[mgarfias]

Yep, i was pretty pissed when they started that