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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by wlesieutre on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:03PM (#27884890)
Apple no longer prohibits ads in notifications as of March last year

https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/04/apple-now-allows-push-notific...

Good way to get your notification privileges revoked though. I wish Apple would add granular notification categories within apps so that you could approve particular types of notifications while denying others. A quick google says Android 8 did this in 2017.

Apple's policy on this is to require in-app configuration to opt out of marketing messages, rather than a way to configure it through the OS.

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by radley on Monday July 19, 2021 @03:32PM (#27886442)
Essentially, Apple blocked it until they needed it to promote their services in more channels.
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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by RandallBrown on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:13PM (#27884988)
Apple is adding something like what you want in iOS 15. https://openback.com/blog/wwdc-2021-ios-15-push-notification...
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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by wlesieutre on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:42PM (#27885276)
Sort of like what I want, but relies of developers to decide what is passive/active/time-sensitive/critical, and instead of being able to fix it the only recourse is to say "no notifications."

I do see what Apple is going for, in that these predefined categories let you automate notification handling with Focus modes, but I have a feeling a lot of apps will have an inflated opinion of how important "new episodes of ____ are available" is to me.

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by pseudalopex on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:29PM (#27885800)
Many apps send marketing notifications anyway. And there seems to be no way to report it.
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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by wlesieutre on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:41PM (#27885924)
Not sure what you mean by "send marketing notifications anyway," since they are allowed to do that now.

Are you saying they do it after you opt-out of the marketing notifications in-app?

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by pseudalopex on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:38PM (#27898251)
Yes.
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