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” 😞
“Do no harm”, that’s the Hippocratic Oath.
Close, but it was “don’t be evil”.
Yeah Starbucks does the same thing with “Promotions and Order Status”. :/
The management executive who took this decision deserves a punch in the face.
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.
Why would anybody name a food company STD lol
Wow this is unethical. They should all be separate toggles.
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.
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.
There should be a legal requirement to call a targeted advertisement a targeted advertisement. Being allowed to call 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.
Yeah in Europe I’d send this to my local data authorities and the ombudsman
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.
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 having to go into vibrate mode.
For a Pixel 7 phone:
Settings -> Sound & Vibration -> Default notification sound -> My Sounds -> None
asshole design
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.
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 dot on the notification area, with a notification that goes about ‘plz enable notifications so we can spam you’
Just like dating apps, if you want notification of a message or match, you have to get ad notifications daily
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.
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 😎
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.
Unfortunately, this is as granular as you’re able to get with the notification controls for the Play Store app.
From the application itself, you can disable the Deals and Promotions.
I was wondering why I have not seen any ads even though I have this active for the app. So there you go.
Not true on my Sony experia, in Finland. So I am thinking that instead of adjusting the settings for alerts, maybe check settings of the store itself? The play store app, like this screen? Maybe. Dunno if that’s the difference here.
They might give you the possibility to opt out thanks to living in the EU, the OP might not be as lucky.
