[digital_sawzall]

I purchased a Pixel 7a for work related testing a few weeks ago. It's a nice phone and rooting was very easy. I was impressed overall.

But those damn ads they deliver as notifications! WTF. Why would they do that.

It just reaffirmed my allegiance to Apple.

[daedalus_j]

What ads? I've had a pixel 7a for month, stock OS, and I'm not sure what you mean. I certainly don't get any ads via notification except for from 3rd party apps.

It's possible you have some Google app running and that's what's doing it? I would look into which apps the notifications are coming from, you should be able to completely eliminate the problem.

[princevegeta89]

I keep my notifications for almost all of my apps turned off. This includes "important" apps like Google Maps and Google Drive.

I only keep notifications ON for apps that I really really care about, which are mostly communication apps like WhatsApp, Signal etc.

I don't miss a thing. I feel mobile notifications are a cesspit full of crap. Every fucking website or app or game wants to send you notifications, and they're almost always 100% useless.

I use a Samsung phone and I in fact put all the muted apps in "deep sleep" as well.

[throwworhtthrow]

I wish Apple's ads were delivered as notifications. Then I could disable them. But Apple allows me to disable notifications for everyone but themselves.

I get emails, popups, and banners on my iPhone. They're on my lock screen, in the Music app nav bar, and draped across the top of Settings. They repeatedly nag me to upgrade my iCloud storage, try Apple Music, see what's new in Apple TV, and check out their financial services. They hassle me on macOS too.

Windows 10 is tame in comparison. I just got a Pixel phone and it pesters me more than my iPhone did, but not by much.

[codalan]

The worst are the apps that will constantly bother you with an in-app popup to enable notifications, e.g. Goat. They make it come up randomly so you'll accidentally click on it.

Or apps that you pay for (Spotify Premium, Tidal) that will constantly bombard you with marketing in-app popups at random times. So instead of listening and enjoying my music, I can accidentally click on one of these landmines and get redirected to something I do not want.

I cancelled Spotify because of this. Will also cancel Tidal after my trial because they just copying the same ugly tactics as Spotify.

[Qision]

To me the worst part of the 7a is the touchscreen, very often when I type a message some letters get typed many times and this is a known problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/13wwqye/pixel_...

So I hope at least they solved this issue for the 8a

[Grazester]

I don't know what the hell you managed to install on your phone but there certainly aren't any ads outside of free ad supported apps on any pixel phone.

[methuselah_in]

Use next DNS.

[palata]

> But those damn ads they deliver as notifications! WTF. Why would they do that.

Hmm I feel like you missed something. Notifications should not be an issue.