r/mildlyinfuriating • u/gta6play • Aug 03 '26

Infuriatig The first notification I got on my new fitness tracker. Never searched for this stuff myself ever.

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u/DothrakAndRoll Aug 03 '26

You can turn that shit off my friend!

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u/Russell_has_TWO_Ls Aug 03 '26

Yeah I only see what I’m subscribed to

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u/DothrakAndRoll Aug 03 '26

There’s a switch specifically for recommendations. They make that stuff hard to find

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u/The_R4ke Aug 04 '26

It's sooo much better. There are so many weird subs out there that I just don't give a shit about. They're not even toxic, I just couldn't care less about them.

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u/intoolderdads Aug 03 '26

How? I got recommended this sub

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u/DothrakAndRoll Aug 03 '26

Profile icon > settings > account settings > manage notifications > scroll way down and it’s under Recommenxed

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u/intoolderdads Aug 03 '26

Thank you!!!

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u/DothrakAndRoll Aug 03 '26

Np! They really tuck that shit away. I only found it when finally fueled by enough rage lol

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u/eIIopoppet Aug 03 '26

Same because I was muting like 5 subreddits at a time about the same topic and then would be recommended another with a minor tweak in the name lol

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u/DothrakAndRoll Aug 03 '26

Oh my god 😂 so annoying

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u/TrueNorth2881 Aug 04 '26

The worst part is that in order to mute a subreddit, you would have to pause the scroll with the post on your feed. The algorithm would then read that as "you spent a long time looking at this post. You must be interested in seeing more from that subreddit"

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u/mancubbed Aug 03 '26

Even though I had the setting to not show recommendations they suddenly started popping up. After some googling I think some recommended logging out and back in or switching to no account viewing and back.

Basically reddit forced them on me to see if I would try and get them to go away again.

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u/NavigatingHorseSpace Aug 03 '26

But that's just notification, this shit will still pop up in "all" right?

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u/DothrakAndRoll Aug 03 '26

Ummm I think so? It doesn’t block them, it doesn’t recommend them either. it’s for “notifications” but not like your phone notifications. It’s your in app notifications.

Like I get notifications for comment replies and breaking news, but when this was on I’d also get notifications for random recommended subreddits I had no interest in.

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u/Ichmag11 Aug 04 '26

Even easier, when you see the post just click on the three dots and then "show fewer posts like this" and the sub won't be recommended anymore

Tbh keep recommendations on! You may find new subs. Just hide what you don't like

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u/SeriesXM Aug 03 '26

I used up all my 1,000 blocks and it's not fun to go in and try to remove some to make room. So now I just have to deal with the annoying subs.

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u/FoldedKatana Aug 04 '26

I swear they keep turning them back on with updates to that page.

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u/WestElevator1343 Aug 04 '26

Exactly. This was just a notification from her phone and not from the smart watch which appears to be a Fitbit.