There is literally nothing on social networks worth notification. Disable them already.
uBlock Origin's element remover is excellent for this, though I often go directly into CSS using Stylus, a CSS management extension for Firefox and other browsers.
I also don't use any mainstream social media apps.
Mastodon and Diaspora* limit notifications to other users' actions only.
I'm surprised EasyList lets so many of these through, so I built my own (very few rules for now):
All desktop notifications are blocked.
Sites will still throw up their own notification icons --- for many that's a dark-patterns false icon (e.g., appears w/o any account). That and a whole host of other annoyances: chumboxes, overlays, interstitials, fixed headers /footers, social link-litter, "engagement" stats, newsletters & other registrations, nags, cookie banners, etc., etc.
The set of CSS hacks I'd created for Buzzfeed a few years back was pretty remarkable. Stripped of its cruft, the site was ... moderately tolerable. (It was, of course, still Buzzfeed...) I called it "unBuzzed".
That’s also something I do not understand. I don’t get how their domain isn’t flagged everywhere with a very bad reputation given the amount of spam they produce.
It’s not a big deal I guess, but annoying and obviously promotional. Now I partially associate Apple with intentionally annoying.
Not so anymore. Numerous nags in settings to buy AppleCare or start a trial of some service or other. The App Store is particularly egregious: as well as search ads there are now occasional modal prompts to enable marketing notifications with my most hated dark pattern of all—only offering “yes” or “not now” as options.
The App Store on my iphone is only useful for installing apps I've searched for externally. Browsing categories is buried as a search suggestion?
https://www.imore.com/how-to-enable-or-disable-apple-card-no...
Which reminds me, I need to get with Apple Card support to find a workaround for the bug where I get notifications for my spouse’s purchases (and vice versa) despite having toggled the switch enough times to have worn a dull spot on the screen. Thankfully we are a couple who don’t really care about the purchases, per se, it is just fucking annoying.
And use it a lot less now, so good job, Twitter!
So it's usually easy to just turn off all the annoying ones, while keeping the useful ones.
But in return I don't ever get any other notification. The only way to find out whether someone answered my tweet is to manually dig through my own profile.
Needless to say, I don't use Twitter anymore. Because of this, and because 80% of content I saw was just a stream of pure negativity.
My twitter account goes weeks without being accessed.
Well, if you are not paying for the service with your money, you are paying with your attention. And this is the mechanism to extract additional attention from you, and it works very well.
Never used https://adnauseam.io/ ... but mhmmm maybe it’s the next step.
Install the extension, load Twitter end set up endless scroll or Puppeteer script. Adnauseam would click EVERY ad it sees.
I really wish companies let us turn this kind of thing off, or better yet stopped trying to boost "engagement" numbers by violating your user's trust.