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by the_gipsy 897 days ago
Permissions don't matter much. Of course you need to be able to disable permissions for specific apps, but if you want to receive e.g. user messages but not promotional spam, there is nothing you can do.
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Unless the developers used notification channels (on Android) correctly, then I can disable only the "spam" channel, and not the "messages" channel.

Granted, an app sending spam notifications often doesn't want to make this distinction..

https://support.apple.com/en-ke/108302

iOS has a "Time Sensitive notifications" type that will popup immediately, even when user assign the app to summary view. But the type is assigned by sender alone. It is still possible to spam it.