Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, research finds

Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by FridgeSeal on Sunday October 01, 2023 @06:26PM (#37731574)

So does Uber (+ eats); I don’t want deals or vouchers, I don’t want to sign up to your subscription service, I only want to know when the car is arriving.

Instagram I had to disable from notifications entirely, so now I miss messages from friends frequently, because the app bombards you with so much unrelated junk.

I suspect these companies know this, they know we don’t want spurious notifications, but they abuse whatever notification policies the OS provides in order to deliver you them anyways.

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Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by neilparikh on Sunday October 01, 2023 @07:56PM (#37732261)

For Uber and UberEats, turns out you actually can disable marketing notifications, under the communication settings, it's just hidden away.

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Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by bravetraveler on Monday October 02, 2023 @01:21PM (#37741399)

Funny, I had turned off notifications for UberEats exactly due to this.

You can't actually manage these notifications until re-opening the door, re-enabling them.

There are currently six categories in here. Who wants to take bets until these shift, nullifying the point?

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Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by PopePompus on Sunday October 01, 2023 @08:25PM (#37732491)

Yes, and websites know that we don't want video advertisements playing everywhere on the screen, but it doesn't matter because we're the product, not the customer.

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Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by matt-attack on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @03:22PM (#37770269)

I use Uber all the time and having notifications disabled is fine.

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