- cross-posted to:
- webdev@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- webdev@programming.dev
I know that some serious science goes into this but… Seriously, fuck your advertising. Push notifications that aren’t specifically topically opted into get blocked so fast on my phone. I have no patience for wasting my time earning someone else advertising dollars.
Push notifications that aren’t specifically topically opted into get blocked so fast on my phone. I have no patience for wasting my time earning someone else advertising dollars.
I agree. The article also points out this fact. Quoting the article:
Another challenge is that irrelevant or unwelcomed pushes risk having the user disable notifications, uninstall apps, or start ignoring them due to low usefulness. This results in a permanent loss of a channel for sharing timely, useful information, leading to reduced app usage. Unfortunately, as Twitter found, most recommendation engines take a myopic view, over-optimizing on immediate user responses at the cost of long-term satisfaction.
Personally, this problem is so pervasive that I kind of developed a pavlovian reflex to notification dialogs to cancel all without thinking about it.
what to push: whatever the user opted into
what not to push: everything else
you’re welcome
Almost as bad as the ones that ask you to rate their app every couple of days/weeks. They all get 1 star with a comment saying they kept asking me to rate and nothing else. I’ll ignore the pop-up once or twice but if it gets annoying Ill make it backfire in them.
The comments here are everything I hoped for.