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Re:Ask HN: Do newsletters work? Why do websites push them so... by l72 on Monday August 01, 2022 @01:24PM (#32309299)
I have enabled web push notifications for a few sites, specifically Slack and Help Lightning. But those are both communication tools where I often use a browser instead of a native app and want immediate message notifications.

I have never, nor would I ever enable web push notifications for any sort of marketing or newsletters. I am still a huge RSS reader fan, and use imapfilter to automatically format and send certain emails directly to my RSS service (freshrss) [1].

I am big on zero-inbox, so I _hate_ having non important stuff in there. But for some reason, having a backlog of RSS feeds doesn't bother me! I wonder if part of it is that I find mobile email clients and web email clients so limiting when it comes to filtering and managing messages/threads.

[1] https://blog.line72.net/2021/12/23/converting-bandcamp-email...

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