points by dylan604 8 hours ago

Snapchat has to be the all time worst offender to me about abusive level of notifications. Luckily, you can turn them off, but holy cow batman, that's a lot of notification options to deal with.

al_borland 7 hours ago

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.

  • slater 7 hours ago

    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.

    • brk 4 hours ago

      That is why I just filter ND emails to spam. Those patterns just reaffirm I don’t want the kind of content they offer.

  • grantith 2 hours ago

    I flagged them as spam the other day.

iamacyborg 8 hours ago

Remember when Android used to let notification senders hijack turning your screen on, Snapchat used that one a lot.

  • maest 7 hours ago

    That's "growth hacking" for you