[plagiarist]

I remember when I first started seeing obvious ads in notifications and assumed Apple would come down hard. I wish I had been right.

If any app abuses the notifications at all I turn them all off, that's the only way to stop it. If the notifications are required for the app's operation, well, then I have to delete the app.

Society has fucked itself over allowing these to exist.

[wincy]

My United Healthcare app told me I had 43 notifications. I just turned it off. There’s literally never a time they need to notify me via a push notification on my phone.

[_carbyau_]

Society has fucked itself over allowing everyone to be dependant on software entirely from two american companies.

20 years ago the idea that I'd have to have an account with an american company so as to be able to interact with so much of my on-another-continent society would be ridiculous!

Now it is the default. It is sad.