so you know what really steams my buns app notifications i mean okay sure you
want to know when you get an angry email from your boss or when someone on
twitter responded to one of your hot takes but why does a game that i hardly
ever play think that it's okay to send me a dozen reminders every day to inform
me that i hardly ever play it i mean weren't notifications designed to be
useful back in 2003 blackberry started pushing
out emails so that you wouldn't have to keep checking your messages over and
over to see if you had anything important to deal with and that was a
godsend so you would think that the likes of google and apple would have
found a way to keep the original spirit of the push notification alive
but this is 2019 where even cat underwear
can be monetized so of course developers decided that push notifications would be
a great way not to let us know when something important was happening but
rather to maintain a constant presence in our minds and therefore our
wallets and it's having a real world impact
app and notification fatigue are real things now did you know that according
to one survey over 70 percent of users
said that six or more notifications from one app in a week would cause them to
stop using that app altogether but nevertheless developers think it's a
great idea to keep shoving more and more notifications down our throats i mean
is there an emptier feeling than seeing your phone light up with a tinder
notification thinking someone might finally be interested just to find out
they're trying to sell you more crappy features you don't need
not that i would know anything about that of course anyway not only do app
developers keep sending you notifications because more eyeballs on
their apps means more money but the people running the big app marketplaces
so that's the aforementioned apple and google they really have no incentive to
stop the avalanche of garbage showing up at the top of our screens because why
would they not only do google and apple take a cut
when you buy a premium app they also take 30 percent of the money that you
spend on in-app purchases so more screen time increases the likelihood that
you'll buy more like gold coins for that stupid tile matching
game that you love so much and then even if you don't do that it makes it more
likely that you'll engage with their own paid or ad supported services and what
better way to ensure that we are all staring at our screens like a bunch of
brainless sheep than to have our phones chirp at us with notifications all the
time now to be fair there are ways to turn off notifications for problematic
apps and you can do it here on Android and here on iOS but for goodness sake
there has to be a better way to do this
other than us wasting time that we could spend doing literally anything else
digging through menus and disabling notifications one at a time or
even worse trying to figure out Android's confusing new notification
category system now individual apps also allow you to
alter these settings but like social media platforms for example are
notorious for having such an endless amount of customization in their
notification menus that it is nearly impossible to disable the spam you don't
want without accidentally missing something important so many users just
end up leaving it on now i really don't think it would be
that hard for google and apple with their billions of dollars to realize
that people do remove irritating apps and also to develop an algorithm to
separate out the unimportant stuff from the good stuff i mean google literally
did this for your gmail inbox already and then probably the craziest part of
all this for me is that while i can understand the motivation for stuffing
more spam down our throats what is up with the apps that failed to deliver the
notifications we ask for why is it that my chat app will neglect to send me
pings for two hours then hit me with all of them at once when i happen to open it
or what about youtube's brilliant strategy of picking and choosing which
channels to bother informing me about a new video from i mean i clicked
subscribe i actually want to hear about it unfortunately right now other than
training in notification blocker foo
i don't have a great solution for you but stay tuned because here at Linus
media group we are hard at work on the techwiki freemium notification blocker
app every time a notification comes through it'll read it send that data
back to our servers then send you a notification announcing that the
notification has been blocked and if that sounds good you're wrong that
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