<story><title>I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones</title><url>https://alexanderell.is/posts/sneaking-notifications/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xahrepap</author><text>I follow the same rule. But I will also then go one star review it.&lt;p&gt;I will also one-star review any app that prompts me to review it by first asking me if I like it (sneaky sneaky!)</text></item><item><author>dguo</author><text>My rule is: if I get a single notification that I find useless, I&amp;#x27;ll immediately disable that notification channel (I&amp;#x27;m on Android; I&amp;#x27;m not sure if iOS has a concept of channel-specific settings) for that app. Even if the channel can include useful notifications, as the article discusses.&lt;p&gt;If the app doesn&amp;#x27;t bother to categorize its notifications into channels at all, I turn off its notifications entirely, and I won&amp;#x27;t turn it back on.&lt;p&gt;If something is important enough, I can always manually check on it. My attention is too valuable to me to waste it on useless notifications.&lt;p&gt;I do want more control over my notifications in general. I use Google Apps Script to automatically process&amp;#x2F;triage my email, and I want to do something similar with notifications. I can probably do so using Tasker, but I haven&amp;#x27;t gotten around to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>faeriechangling</author><text>Lol I do this too.  If I see an &amp;quot;are you enjoying our app&amp;quot; banner I will immediately click yes, follow the link to the store, and then immediately 1 star.  Even if I enjoy the app and use it daily.&lt;p&gt;Companies that attempt to filter out negative feedback can pound sand.</text></comment>
<story><title>I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones</title><url>https://alexanderell.is/posts/sneaking-notifications/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xahrepap</author><text>I follow the same rule. But I will also then go one star review it.&lt;p&gt;I will also one-star review any app that prompts me to review it by first asking me if I like it (sneaky sneaky!)</text></item><item><author>dguo</author><text>My rule is: if I get a single notification that I find useless, I&amp;#x27;ll immediately disable that notification channel (I&amp;#x27;m on Android; I&amp;#x27;m not sure if iOS has a concept of channel-specific settings) for that app. Even if the channel can include useful notifications, as the article discusses.&lt;p&gt;If the app doesn&amp;#x27;t bother to categorize its notifications into channels at all, I turn off its notifications entirely, and I won&amp;#x27;t turn it back on.&lt;p&gt;If something is important enough, I can always manually check on it. My attention is too valuable to me to waste it on useless notifications.&lt;p&gt;I do want more control over my notifications in general. I use Google Apps Script to automatically process&amp;#x2F;triage my email, and I want to do something similar with notifications. I can probably do so using Tasker, but I haven&amp;#x27;t gotten around to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Phlogistique</author><text>For some reason I had never thought of doing that.&lt;p&gt;Thanks, I will do so from now on!</text></comment>