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by ShadowBanThis01 898 days ago
Don’t assume that a push notification is going to be shown to the user. It may be for consumption only by the app, to avoid the need for polling a remote server.

I expected this article to discuss push-notification payloads and use cases, but no… it’s about spamming the user about products. It’s as if the author doesn’t even understand what push notifications are.

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> It may be for consumption only by the app, to avoid the need for polling a remote server.

I don't want this to happen, either. Does disabling push notifications also disable this use of them?

Good point, in my case when I say “delivered”, I primarily mean the phone notifying the user.
Understood. Just wanted to bring this up because the article ignores most of the possibilities of push notifications.