>If you install the app then they can proactively annoy ... sorry ... engage you.
I remember how I had all notifications and jingle bells on when I got my first smartphone back in 2015/2016. Nowadays turning off notifications is the first thing I do, and then turning them on for selected apps (e.g., phone, Telegram, etc). It helps I don't have social media apps in my phone, and whatever I use I access it in the browser (e.g., Twitter and Reddit).
They're also doing an annoying then where you have a message if you don't have notifications turned on for the iOS app. If you turn them on, the 'message' goes away. But if you turn them back off, the message comes back! So annoying.
Curious. What are all these things you want to get notified about? I pretty much have all notifications turned off besides messaging, phone, and alarm.
The entire purpose of notifications is to bring urgent and/or time-sensitive things to your attention. If you're getting notifications you don't want, it's on you to turn them off.
Then it turns into everyone turning off all their notifications. What was originally a reasonable amount of notifications on a smartphone 5 or 7 years ago has now grown to such ridiculous amounts (often notifications for things I don't even care about) that the apps competing for my attention are cannibalize each other and consequently they've collectively destroyed the market for my attention, by me choosing to turn off all notifications.
Notifications have essentially become a "tragedy of the commons" problem. Everyone optimizing for their self interest ended up creating all losers.
Only thing I have notifications turned on for are things that require immediate attention like messages or maybe emails. Disabling notifications is the first thing I do after installing an app, which should be the default setting for any app.
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