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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by buboard on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @02:42PM (#22184941)
Its true that tons of news sites ask for permission just to spam you, or outright sell notifications to advertisers. I think the web notif channel has already been abused beyond repair. It may be time to redo the concept from scratch

Killer feature for email: add an email header that turns an email to notification. Then email apps would push the notification to the user, bypassing apple’s block. Websites already have the user’s email, so no need for more subscriptions. If gmail implemented this, it might push for adoption

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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by scottmotte on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:37PM (#22188410)
That's a novel thought. I imagine then the native mail apps would expand in settings in order to block some bad senders from abusing that email header.

Tangentially related, iOS mail app has a VIP setting.

[1] https://support.apple.com/lv-lv/HT207213#vip

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Re:Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native by buboard on Friday January 31, 2020 @10:35AM (#22202482)
The apps don’t even need to think of spam, that would be handled by the mail server just like all other spam.
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