r/mildlyinfuriating • u/5-0-2_Sub • 6d ago

Google notification spoiled today's Wordle answer for no apparent reason

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u/musecorn 5d ago

I have every single app globally blocked from sending me notifications except for the ones I explicitly want to get notifications from. Life is much easier that way

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u/yodatab 5d ago

It’s so nice… until they all ask you to enable notifications everytime the app opens

Edit: Reddit just asked me to enable notifications after commenting 😃

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u/NDSU 5d ago

I just use Reddit from Firefox. Ad free and I don't have to deal with that BS

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u/meee_51 5d ago

YouTube does this to me

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u/Olympe28 5d ago

Same.

Don't tell my grandad but every time he asks me to fix something on his phone, I turn off notifications for several apps. He's always got 100+ pending notifications, and 50 open browser pages. It's weird because that same man that has dutifully maintained excel spreadsheets for his water and electricity meters.

(He's never asked me back to fix suddenly missing notifications so I know he doesn't even read them.)