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by twism 905 days ago
Android has notifications channels ... mute the spam/ad ones. I only have the payment and delivery status channels on alert, the others are not muted but "silent" (i.e. the show up in the notification tray but doesn't alert me). you do get some deals sometimes.

Android gets a lot of shit for a lot of things but the notification is top-notch ... on iOS it seems like an afterthought (e.g. how long it took for iOS to get web push).

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I have rule that audible notifications are urgent, mainly messages and alerts. Silent notifications for everything else and can be sorted in bulk later. I haven’t had to mute any notification channels yet.
> mute the spam/ad ones

Some apps think their stupid spam is important enough to have a single notification channel for both the spam and actually important stuff like order status.

their fault i'm muting all the relevant notifications including the spam ones. leading to poor UX. leading to the uninstallation of said app