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Comment by chankstein38 | Hacker News Reader

Ah, another thing to learn to ignore because everyone seems to think my attention is owned by them. These companies don't seem to realize that continuing to add these petty things will just make us learn to ignore them more and more. It's like notifications. My discord is always on no notifications and the @heres and stuff make my icon badge always say 9+ or whatever. So now I never see things people want to share because they've overused the alerts.

Facebook was the same. I turned off notifications completely because I couldn't disable specific ones I didn't need so they started emailing me so I blocked them as spam. Sorry FB, your loss. My life is better without your garbage product anyway.

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This 100%. I turn off notifications every time an app abuses them. Spotify wants to tell me about a random album I should listen to? Notifications blocked. Twitter recommends an account to follow? Notifs off. The pattern has continued to the point where I now do not get any social media notifications and I only see the app's content when I actively open it up and check. They waste our time so we disable their functionality.

Right? Or the pattern of opening Spotify to find/listen to something, something pops up, I close it immediately without reading it because it's In My Way and never find out about what they were trying to tell me.

>> We are trying to reach you to find out your opinion on banners that get in your way!

Apple Podcasts sending you notifications for new podcasts that are subscription only. You tap on it. You wait for it to load. And then you get a popup 'subscription only'.

If you are on an android phone what supports shelter[1], I can recommend installing "social" apps inside the shelter, and just sleep the apps when you don't use them.

In regards to windows, it feels to me as morphing into a solution for large corporations if disregarding the tabloid news while leaving private users just waiting for a friendly OS to be presented for them.

[1] https://github.com/PeterCxy/Shelter

I hadn't heard of Shelter before but this looks really neat!

Not quite as good, but you can turn off background app refresh on iOS to cripple their ability to do anything, though I believe push notifications come via Apple’s server anyway.

The worst thing is, these notifications/error badges consume your attention even if you choose NOT to engage with them. If you have OCD (or are OCD-adjacent, or just enjoy seeing a screen that is not full of unremovable “call to action” badges), it’s a nightmare.

This shit should be illegal. Make it truly optional so I can turn off or dismiss the badge/“error” permanently, or just don’t do it this way.

Facts facts facts. For anyone with any kind of obsessive tendencies towards cleaning your inbox or anything, it's literal torture. It's crazy that it's even legal.

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