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Re:I only care about the helpful notifications, not the prom... by UkrainianJew on Sunday June 05, 2022 @01:05PM (#31632795)
>I really wish companies let us turn this kind of thing off

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.

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Re:I only care about the helpful notifications, not the prom... by Nextgrid on Sunday June 05, 2022 @01:15PM (#31632904)
Disagreed. This garbage happens even with paid services, in fact the service in the article is a restaurant chain.
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