If an app abuses the privilege of being able to show me notifications, badges or anything, that privilege will be swiftly revoked.
this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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100% agree, not sure if you are referring to a particular app but,food delivery apps are #1 suspect. I h8 it
Rideshare apps are the Robin to their Batman
Discord had been doing it, telling you to buy boost for a server or some shit.
Is it push tho ? One thing is a red bubble or an in-app disclaimer . The offending level, for me, is a push notification.
I was thinking about on Windows. There was a stupid badge notification that wouldn't go away until I looked at their ad for Boost.
Any gas pump that starts playing an ad when you start pumping gas should be set on fire with the manager who approved the decision standing within the blast radius.
I just wanna say that as someone who designs user interfaces for a living, I always do whatever I can to play with UI/UX in my normal life.
At a gas station, playing ads, I always start tapping and holding the little buttons near the screen. Almost always holding 2 across from each other goes into a mode where it shuts up, and continues pumping. Plus it's like a fun little arms race of a game for me.
The managers probably have zero say. The franchise owner probably gets a kickback so to them it’s a no brainer
Then put them next to it. Whoever is responsible for signing off on that deal.
It shouldn't be considered a "no brainier". We're there to purchase gasoline in exchange for money. Our mere presence somewhere doesn't grant people the right to shove shit into our eyes and ears. It's an attack on our personal solace, and I fucking hate it. It should be illegal. It seriously diminishes our happiness and sense of peace. "It's just business" is a poor fucking excuse for making people's lives worse in exchange for a little money for you personally. It's amoral, and we need to start punishing that attitude. It has gone way too far already, and it will continue going deeper into the realms of intrusion until society's attitudes about it begin to change.
Your rage is justified and the phrase "It's an attack on our personal space" absolutely nails it.
My intention wasn’t to dismiss your argument. I think having to experience advertising in each corner of existence is the farthest dystopian we’ve come. I moreso meant that the entire system is broken, perhaps humanity is. I feel like today if I pick a group of 10 random people, 9 of them would be willing to step on their fellow humans if it meant they could get ahead. And that seems to be the cornerstone of not only capitalism, but the hyper-capitalism we see today. We’ve really reached a peak of “fuck everyone else I’ll get my own” and I hate it. So I mean that to a franchise owner struggling against a multinational trillion dollar fuel conglomerate, yes it’s a no brainer. They take the pittances just as they fuck over their employees who also take the pittances, it’s shit all the way down
Thanks for the reply. I didn't interpret your response as dismissive, I just kind of went off on my own little rant. I understand from the business perspective society now says it's acceptable to make money any way you can, regardless of the impact it has on people. It just drives me crazy, especially as someone who is a little older and remembers when it wasn't like this. Sure, there were evil companies back then, but there was serious fallout when consumers perceived a celebrity or even a trusted company as a sellout. Now it's just expected that anyone will trample over anything to get a little further.
Absolutely agreed. The system is broken, you’ve summarized it well.
Na, but it is a guaranteed way to having your notifications permission revoked.
And the ability to disable categories of notifications so that these "offers" can never pester me again is one of the greatest intentions of the digital age.
iOS needs this feature badly.
Moving from Android that’s one of the biggest things I miss
Making me look at an ad without first getting my written consent should be a felony.
Please send a self-addressed stamped envelope to request permission. Expect 6 to 8 weeks for delivery of response.
Sad thing is that you can't just not look. It could be a DM with nudes, after all.
Nobody's DMing me nudes
Me neither :(
darn I can't message you in the federation or can't figure it out.
I appreciate the effort anyway
Pizza hut upping their game, I see
Easy solution don't install spyware and malware on your phone. Use web apps if you really have to use that trash.
Vote with you fucking feet jfc
Instructions unclear, my foot is now stuck in a vacuum cleaner
Take a his res photo of your buthole and upload into your vacuum app so ww can verify you are an authorized owner so we can release your foot. Thank you for your cooperation peasants!
What about a her res photo?
high*
I'm stuck at step zero: getting a phone that's mine
pixel with grapheneOS will get you as close to that as possible practically.
Although I agree, I hope that you are also taking a look at the configuration of the allowed notifications for the app. I review that every time some shit like that happens.