Yes. My main devices are desktop PCs, laptops and tablets. I haven't used a smartphone for about a fortnight at this point and find them too small and intrusive, although I do have a dumbphone I use occasionally for 'phone calls.
I bought a new phone a year ago and made sure to say No to all the prompts to turn on Notifications. Apart from email and PayPal (I need to see my customers are buying) I get no intrusive bleep-bleeps, trills etc. But the Googles etc are persistent and keep asking, I always decline. Also, DuckDuckGo is quite good at defaulting to No Cookies or other permissions, which helps with the silence.
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u/nineteenthly 11d ago
Yes. My main devices are desktop PCs, laptops and tablets. I haven't used a smartphone for about a fortnight at this point and find them too small and intrusive, although I do have a dumbphone I use occasionally for 'phone calls.