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Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by gambiting on Sunday October 01, 2023 @03:20PM (#37729513)
Hahahahaha - sorry, the mere suggestion that Google cares enough about this to "penalize" anyone who ignores this system is actually really funny to me. No, of course they don't do any such thing. The system is entirely and completely optional, and developers have long ago realized that actually using it is to their own detriment, because users will just block the marketing notifications but leave the important ones, so they just bundle everything together. I have actually messaged several developers of some of the apps I use if they can fix this exact thing and the response has always been "sorry we don't have the technical ability to do this" which is obviously complete nonsense. But no, there isn't any penalty for not doing this from google.
Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by mr_mitm on Sunday October 01, 2023 @03:36PM (#37729704)
Huh. It really worked well for me so far. Interesting.
Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by TeMPOraL on Sunday October 01, 2023 @03:49PM (#37729857)
You're lucky. I found that even Google doesn't respect their own categories, and happily bucket useful information together with spam.
Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by fooker on Sunday October 01, 2023 @04:22PM (#37730234)
Is it really that surprising to you that something Google has created works better than something Apple has created for a specific narrow problem?

These are all trillion dollar companies, your allegiance is wasted.

Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by gambiting on Monday October 02, 2023 @03:52AM (#37735089)
....my "allegiance" if you want to call it that is entirely to Google, so I don't understand your point? Did you somehow get from my point that I'm an iOS user???

>>that something Google has created works better

Does it? The system for categorizing notification does exist on android, but it's not enforced in any way by Google on the Play Store so most devs ignore it - do you take an issue with anything I said?