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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by al_borland on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @06:53PM (#48301865)
For me the worst is NextDoor. I don’t have the app installed, but they also have email notifications. There are seemingly 100 options and I turned them all off when I first made the account. Periodically they add new ones and auto-enable them for everyone. There is not universal way to shut them off, short of blocking them all together or deleting my account. The account was such a pain to setup that I’m hesitant to delete it, for the 1 time every couple years where it’s useful.
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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by slater on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @06:56PM (#48301887)
Even worse with ND e-mails are how they've absolutely perfected the cut-off character limit for what's being posted in your area. So my inbox is just perma-barraged with click-bait-y "This place on Smith Street has the best...", "Health officials are investigating an outbreak of...", etc.
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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by brk on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @09:31PM (#48303194)
That is why I just filter ND emails to spam. Those patterns just reaffirm I don’t want the kind of content they offer.
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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by grantith on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @11:19PM (#48304053)
I flagged them as spam the other day.
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Re:What Apple and Google are doing to your push notifications by bpicolo on Thursday May 28, 2026 @10:04AM (#48309122)
Yep, I straight up deleted my Nextdoor. Nextdoor itself is spammy and ad ridden. And most of the content in the community is also just spam anyway.

My neighborhood has a WhatsApp. I engage with it if I feel like it. Works great

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