There should be a legal requirement to call a targeted advertisement a targeted advertisement. Being allowed to call them “recommendations” only makes these assholes feel emboldened to push ads where people wouldn’t normally accept them. Microsoft is pulling that dirty trick as well.
Yeah in Europe I’d send this to my local data authorities and the ombudsman
asshole design
They know exactly what they’re doing. They’re never ignorant of this shit, it’s 100 percent intentional. So much for not being evil.
There’s an app, and I’m sure others like it, called Tidy Panel that lets you block notifications based on the content they have. The free version let’s you block a handful, but you need premium for unlimited. For you, the free might be enough.
Tasker also have the autonotification plugin which let you set any rules and actions you want on notifications
I completely disabled all notifications from Google play. There isn’t a single one worth of it.
That said, when I open it (like once every 2 months) I have a permanent dot on the notification area, with a notification that goes about ‘plz enable notifications so we can spam you’
Just like dating apps, if you want notification of a message or match, you have to get ad notifications daily
Joke’s on you. I get daily ads WITHOUT getting message or match notifications. I have successfully decoupled.
decoupled
Assuming it’s a pun
Yeah that’s horrible. I have a strict policy of turning off any notification that is not a direct message from a person to me or a reminder I set myself. If crap gets bundled like this, I turn it off altogether.
When I used Tinder, I just checked the app every now and then and I remember people unmatching me again because I didn’t reply quickly enough. Online dating is so fucking toxic.
This should be better with /e/OS or lineageOS, but you have to jump through several hoops (and often lose your warranty) when you install them instead of your default Android OS.
Unfortunately most devices block them completely, but the Pixel phones are supported (as far as I know).
How would an AOSP fork help with an app not using the notifications API correctly? Just magically rewrite the app?
AOSP forks don’t contain the play store
Edit: Well, some do, but I don’t recommend those
My gripe with non android os is that they usually don’t have access to bank apps, and those are a must
Whenever I tested it, my banking app worked on non-rooted e/os. A rooted device however is not accepted by my banking app.
Custom ROMs on Google Pixel don’t void your warranty and its super easy to revert back to stock ROM
you can unsubscribe from “recommendations” separately tbf (or decline subscription in the firsr place)
I had to specifically mute all of my notifications because I couldn’t find out what app was causing them and it was driving me nuts. Steps below for a Pixel phone if anyone is interested in how to mute notifications without having to go into vibrate mode.
For a Pixel 7 phone:
Settings -> Sound & Vibration -> Default notification sound -> My Sounds -> None
I had to specifically mute all of my notifications because I couldn’t find out what app was causing them and it was driving me nuts.
I’ve been doing that for years. I only have a handful of apps with audio notifications, basically the most important ones that need my attention right away. Everything else gets vibrate.
You can also just look at your “recent apps” under settings, if a notification popped off in the last 30s and you didn’t see a window then it’ll almost certainly be the top app in “most recent”
It’s a glitch / purposeful design in some apps where the actual popup window isn’t set to actually stick around so it just makes a ghost noise. For me it was some random app I installed for one niche purpose and forgot about
It’s designed that way on purpose.
I think you can click it and choose from within it. Normally on android, when there is a switch with a line next to it, that means it’s clickable and has more options.
Unfortunately, this is as granular as you’re able to get with the notification controls for the Play Store app.
Not true on my Sony experia, in Finland. So I am thinking that instead of adjusting the settings for alerts, maybe check settings of the store itself? The play store app, like this screen? Maybe. Dunno if that’s the difference here.
They might give you the possibility to opt out thanks to living in the EU, the OP might not be as lucky.
I always got receipts and cancellation infos via the mail connected to the Google account. One time there was no balance and I had no payment methods set up and I got “Your Google Play balance is too low to pay for your {app name} subscription. To keep your subscription active, please add credit or a new payment method.”
So, if you get email notifications you probably don’t need that.
