These notifications are bundled together for some reason. So if I want to be notified when my subscriptions renew themselves, I have to also be notified of random games going on sale, too.

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• nadram@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Here is Google showing blatant malicious compliance to their own standards. “You want security notifications for payments made through your account? Have a side of ads with that”. They’ve fallen real low since the days of “do no harm” 😞

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  • NoneYa@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Close, but it was “don’t be evil”.

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    • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      “openly evil”

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    • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Which is still in the google code of conduct.

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      That was always sarcastic.

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    • nadram@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      True, thanks 😏

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    “Do no harm”, that’s the Hippocratic Oath.

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    • whaleross@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      “Do no harm to the stockholders” would be the contemporary take.

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    • Hupf@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      More like the Hippocratic Option amirite? 🤜🤛

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• DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  There should be a legal requirement to call a targeted advertisement a targeted advertisement. Calling 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.

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  • JohnOliver@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Yeah in Europe I’d send this to my local data authorities and the ombudsman

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• where_am_i@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  asshole design

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• Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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.

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• kcop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Yeah Starbucks does the same thing with “Promotions and Order Status”. :/

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  • snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Wow this is unethical. They should all be separate toggles.

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  • Snowpix@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    As does SkipTheDishes. Want to be notified that your food is almost here? Fuck you, be bombarded with promotions and deals you didn’t ask for.

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    • lnsfwuser@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why would anybody name a food company STD lol

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  • random8847@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    The management executive who took this decision deserves a punch in the face.

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  • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    To be fair, most of these apps were made before the notification categories were invented and they don’t keep the consultants that made the initial app, or want to pay for the change.

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    • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Aw poor corporate behemoth doesn’t want to spend the pennies (compared to profits) to do things right. If we’re being fair, fuck them for cheaping out at our expense.

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• HornyOnMain@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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.

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  • littlewonder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Also, the BuzzKill app does this and it’s beautiful with Material design.

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  • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Tasker also have the autonotification plugin which let you set any rules and actions you want on notifications

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• Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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 red dot on the notification area, with a notification that goes about ‘plz enable notifications so we can spam you’

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• Doesntpostmuch@possumpat.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Just like dating apps, if you want notification of a message or match, you have to get add notifications daily

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  • Cosmos7349@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Joke’s on you. I get daily ads WITHOUT getting message or match notifications. I have successfully decoupled.

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    • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      decoupled

      Assuming it’s a pun

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  • Pechente@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    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.

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    • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I put “Messages will arrive in three to five business days” in my bio, and that solved the problem nicely. Now, I simply don’t get matches at all 😎

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• neo@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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).

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  • fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    My gripe with non android os is that they usually don’t have access to bank apps, and those are a must

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    • misterwu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      i run rooted LinageOS 21 with the Zygisk Assistant and Play Integrity Fix modules. No app can detect i use a custom rooted rom. Google wallet and my banking apps work just fine. And i can do whatever the fuck I want with my phone since it’s rooted. For example with AdAway all ads are gone. I love it.

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  • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    How would an AOSP fork help with an app not using the notifications API correctly? Just magically rewrite the app?

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    • Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      AOSP forks don’t contain the play store

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  • Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Custom ROMs on Google Pixel don’t void your warranty and its super easy to revert back to stock ROM

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    • TseseJuer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      literally Google supplies a free program to flash most phones back to stock. it’s easier than ever

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• vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  you can unsubscribe from “recommendations” separately tbf

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• Gork@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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 backing to go into vibrate mode.

  For a Pixel 7 phone:

  Settings -> Sound & Vibration -> Default notification sound -> My Sounds -> None

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  • sawdustprophet@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    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.

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    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

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• penquin@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Unfortunately, this is as granular as you're able to get with the notification controls for the Play Store app.

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    • ogeist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      From the application itself, you can disable the Deals and Promotions. Image

      I was wondering why I have not seen any ads even though I have this active for the app. So there you go.

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  • x4740N@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I just checked my options on my Samsung and there is no individual option to fine tune that

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It’s designed that way on purpose.

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• NoMoreCocaine@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Not true on my Sony experia, in Finland. So I am not sure what’s causing the difference exactly.

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    They might give you the possibility to opt out thanks to living in the EU, the OP might not be as lucky.

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• lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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.

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