[xxr]

>app icons are just "advertisement"

You wouldn't believe the volume of actual advertisements that show up as push notifications on my wife's phone

[AaronAPU]

These things only exist because some people just allow it. They allow it and occasionally buy something, enabling the entire hellhole we now all live in.

[RamblingCTO]

These things exist because companies and the people working there are predatory assholes. Let's not make the victims to be the villains and get off your high horse. Most people don't even know how.

[userbinator]

At least relatively recent versions of Android let you turn off notifications per-app:

https://support.google.com/android/answer/9079661?hl=en

[flkiwi]

Which is nice, but when the offender is, say, a security device that sends event notification but ALSO sends marketing spam, with no granular control over types of notifications, it's not a great situation.

[ajsnigrutin]

Even better, apps have to ask you for permission to even show notifications!

Game? Doesn't need notfications, deny, done!

[Mengkudulangsat]

These are so infuriating they should be illegal.

Especially when they come from apps you can't delete like your bannking app.

[frollogaston]

At least Apple has a rule against push spam, which they toe the line on but it's still a lot less bad than it could be.