There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

doostein ,

For Android users Buzzkill is also great for apps that don’t have granular enough notification settings. You can set up rules to make it automatically dismiss the notifications you don’t want to see.

Templa ,

I realized at somepoint I was ignoring everything on my phone because of the number of notifications. Now I disable EVERYTHING and only leave important stuff. I wish this was the default.

CaptKoala ,

I did the same many months ago, though I suspect I may need to redo as I’ve been getting some really long notification piles when I don’t check my phone for a day…

Daxtron2 ,

Just turn them off? That’s what I do, my phone never annoys me.

intensely_human ,

The Amazon app, which for many years has faithfully executed its legitimate role as an app that helps me order stuff and track those orders, recently sent me a notification to let me know it thinks I might like some JBL headphones.

It made me furious. How dare they?

flashgnash ,

At least they normally let you selectively disable promotions

intensely_human ,

Really? That’s handy. Is that an Amazon config option or an iOS config option?

flashgnash ,

I’m not sure about on iOS, on android if you long press on any notification and go to disable it there are a bunch of toggleable notification categories

Ilandar ,

How do people struggle with notifications? This is even weirder than the ad-blocking thing, because at least you are required to find and install a third party app to solve that. Every app ever has notification settings built-in. Just take 20 seconds out of your day to setup the app correctly when you first install it and you will likely never have to worry about it again.

14th_cylon ,

You might have found out if you bothered to read the discussion before sharing your opinion.

Ilandar ,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question

14th_cylon , (edited )

Your “rhetorical question” and objections you raised were already answered in this thread before you raised them.

Ilandar ,

were already answered

It sounds like you still don’t understand what a rhetorical question is.

jarfil ,

What does this thread add to the discussion?

(this is not rhetorical)

Ilandar ,

Why are you asking me? I’m not the one accusing others of “nOt rEaDiNg dA tHrEaD bEfOrE u AsKeD a qUeStOn”. My top level reply was on-topic. No one has actually provided an on-topic reply to it yet.

14th_cylon ,

Why are you asking me?

because you are the one who started it. people usually contribute information into public discussion with hope it will be useful to other readers.

I’m not the one accusing others of “nOt rEaDiNg dA tHrEaD bEfOrE u AsKeD a qUeStOn”.

no, you are the one AsKIng rHETOrIcal qUEsTioN 🤣

No one has actually provided an on-topic reply to it yet.

you were pointed to the fact that your questions were already answered and you can easily read these answers. that is as on topic as it can get.

you chose weird hill to die on.

Ilandar ,

because you are the one who started it.

???

My top level comment was on-topic. No reply to me has been on-topic. No one has actually challenged me on any of the relevant detail of what I said. Are you guys just mad because I don’t suffer from the same problems as you? Is that what is going on here?

14th_cylon ,

If you are a troll, well done. If you are really that dellusional, please get help.

Ilandar ,

If anyone is a troll here, it is you. Dropped into the thread, ignored the topic and every reply and instead went straight to the one that triggered you to begin a completely off-topic argument before rage-quitting when you encountered push-back

You’ve contributed absolutely nothing of value to the thread and can’t even spell “delusional” correctly. Pathetic effort.

smeenz ,

Seems you’re the one who doesn’t understand what a rhetorical question is. Hint - it’s not what you retrospectively call a question when you get called out on your laziness.

Nor is it rhetorical when you ask a question and then spend several lines going on about it, and making it clear that you really did want to talk about an answer.

Ilandar ,

it’s not what you retrospectively call a question when you get called out on your laziness.

Didn’t happen.

Nor is it rhetorical when you ask a question and then spend several lines going on about it, and making it clear that you really did want to talk about an answer.

Also didn’t happen.

14th_cylon ,

Didn’t happen.

do some red circles and arrows help?

https://i.imgur.com/jRZEXMP.png

Also didn’t happen.

https://i.imgur.com/jWklAWh.png

Ilandar ,

You can poorly circle (do you need to see a doctor…?) as many of my comments as you like, it won’t change what I actually said.

DarkNightoftheSoul ,
@DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz avatar

Schrodinger’s rhetorical question is when you decide whether your question was rhetorical or not based on people’s reaction to it.

shortwavesurfer ,

Install Graphene OS or Lineage OS as notifications for the majority of apps require Google Play Services and completely are killed without them.

intensely_human ,

Or just turn notifications off in your OS of choice, if having no notifications is a solution for you.

The problem is that some notifications are useful, and so completely axing notifications isn’t a very good solution.

ulkesh ,
@ulkesh@beehaw.org avatar

So the author both wants notifications and doesn’t want notifications.

Got it.

Sure sounds like a problem of their own making. And I find iOS’s notification taming rather simple to use. So I use it, and amazingly I have less notifications because of it!

autotldr Bot ,

🤖 I’m a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles:

Click here to see the summaryAndroid offers better controls and mercifully shunts some offenders to a “silent” inbox, but it’s not totally off the hook, either. On both platforms, notifications have been and continue to be a constant distraction, a plague upon our already razor-thin attention spans. Every app has to show you an example of the kind of notification it wants to send you, and you get to swipe left or right to opt in or out. This would save us the trouble of going into the settings in two hundred different apps and ticking two thousand little “opt out” buttons. Or you can opt in to them if you desperately want to hear from the Starbucks app every single day, but you should have to go out of your way to do that and should not be the default behavior when you choose “allow notifications.” Just an idea! However it happens, I think it’s time that power over notifications be returned to the people, not the app developers who want us to check out these Deals! — Saved 67% of original text.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • [email protected]
  • lifeLocal
  • random
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •