It's like with phone apps. Every single phone app thinks it is the centre of the universe and is "only" sending you a few notifications per day, but if you extend this to every app on your phone you'll get hundreds a day and the only recourse is to disable them entirely.
Teachers: "My students are smart and diligent, 30min of homework per day should be well within their abilities"
Students: have 4 hours of homework per day
The latest app that needs their notifications disabled on my phone is Amazon. Shame really, knowing about packages was useful. But I really don't need spam about "Hey this thing you glanced at is on sale now" every 2 days.
DoorDash is terrible at this too. Notice that when you turn notifications off on these apps then every time you open them to use them, you get popups "please enable notifications to keep up to date on your orders!!" and the options are always "Yes enable notifications!" or "Remind me later" Excuse me, I disabled notifications for a reason, don't make me disable usage of your app completely.
Oh yeah UberEats was one of the first notification permissions to go. Sorry I’d rather check my phone every 2 minutes when awaiting delivery than deal with you on the other 95% of days.
Why not disable all notifications by default? Is there something you actually really want to get interrupted by? I want to know when I get a call or an text, but pretty much everything else can wait until I'm actively engaged with it.
Every new app I installed gets every permission I can disable disabled including notifications and if it continues to function well enough for my needs why let it do anything more? Why even give new apps opportunity to be obnoxious?
> Every single phone app thinks it is the centre of the universe and is "only" sending you a few notifications per day, but if you extend this to every app on your phone you'll get hundreds a day and the only recourse is to disable them entirely.
Is there a general name for this sort of bias? It's not just phone apps and notifications; I notice this center of the universe attitude in developers of all kinds of auxiliary programs. Chat app programmers who think that quip "unused ram is wasted ram", which they learned in the context of the OS caching files in ram, gives their chat app license to use as much ram as the user may have. It ignores all the other programs the user is probably running that are much more important than their chat app. To the chat app developer, the chat app is the center of the universe and the user has no use for any of their ram besides running the chat app.
Why much I jump through countless hoops just to make it so a third party doesn't have the ability to take over the full screen and audio of the device I was actively using?
Ideally an incoming call would only vibrate the device briefly and put an icon in the status bar. That's it.
Instead, I don't remember what I did anymore but it's completely suppressed on my device now. It's actually worked out OK because I don't give my number to anyone new and anyone who does know it also knows by now that I don't pick up and to contact me some other way. Means that ~100% of incoming calls are spam and my device is correctly filtering them all to /dev/null
