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> Push notifications.

Do people not turn these off? When I get an unwanted notification, I immediately withdraw permissions to send notifications, or even uninstall the app

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If your on HN you're already in a very filtered group that is less likely to be passive on abusive technology.

bold of you to assume that the average user knows how to disable anything on their phone

Kind of scary to imagine the experience of such an average user. "Evil" is not a bad word to describe the attitudes of such apps and services.

I suppose you need to have some idea of how the system is structured to even consider turning certain "features" off.

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