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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by EGreg on Sunday January 20, 2019 @01:29AM (#18951515)
Tragedy of the commons where the commons is human attention. Notifications are one of the ways to train people like pavlov’s dogs to check your app. If you don’t use it others will.
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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by josteink on Sunday January 20, 2019 @04:45AM (#18952202)
Indeed. And as a response I’ve stopped granting notification permissions to anything except email and messaging.

Notifications used sparingly, with restraint, is really, really useful. This spam-fest we’re seeing now though? Fuck that shit.

I can see FB and “friends” adapting though. They’re now sending me email-notifications when I don’t grant them in-app spam permissions. Really.

All the big players are working together real hard to ruin everything.

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