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Comment by rhizome | Hacker News Reader

100% bad UX, which I believe to be intentional. Un-disablable garbage that only benefits the spammer. In fact, the chief evolutionary contribution of Facebook to the world may only ever be new forms of spam.

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Un-disablable? Un-true:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app_notifications/

You can turn off notifications from any app very easily.

but you have to turn them off for each app you can't just disable them as a whole.

Well, you can opt out of all third-party apps, if you want to.

Notifications are a core part of Facebook. It's like complaining that Twitter doesn't have an option to stop people retweeting you.

Notifications are a core part of Facebook but the number of users that want game notifications is pretty small as the linked article described (5% acceptance rate two years ago and going down from that). The explicit gamification in this article is pretty disgusting.

Opting out of third-party apps does not affect notifications TMK. At least I still get them, though I don't know if there would be more if I had apps enabled.

https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy --> Apps, Games and Websites --> Click "Turn off", it is purposely hidden as normal text even though it is the blue hyperlink color it blends in quite well.

If facebook had a (physical)complaints box it would be just out of arms reach above a large rose bush.

Thanks. I hadn't seen that option yet. It is exactly what I want.

That "Turn off" link has returned an error for at least a year.

I made my gf do it two days ago and it worked.

Then nobody at FB is checking the error log, if there is one.

except doing so means that you can't use any third party apps for facebook yourself, such as tweetdeck, other integrating social networks, etc.

If they use oauth then I have my google account. Otherwise I'm not their target audience.

The only things that have required me to use FB app forced login is marketing from "free stuffz" vendors.

So the UX idea is that I have to go to the developer site to find out that request notifications (and apparently only request notifications) have a little X (partially covered by scroll bar and possible tooltip) that activates the blocking interface? Do people go to college to learn how to design UIs this way?

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