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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by badfrog on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:50PM (#19227362)
> Shadow notifications?

Is that the name for the "recent tweet from X" notifications? Those have made Twitter notifications completely useless for me. :(

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by r3bl on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:12PM (#19227579)
That's how I refer to all the notifications that I didn't expect and don't need.

As far as I know, there's no universal term for them. Since we already associate darkness with bad UX patterns, "shadow notifications" as a subset of "dark patterns" has a nice ring to it.

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