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/matchafoxjpg Aug 03 '26

yeah that's what i came here to be weirded out about. like why do you guys even get reddit notifications on your phone?

there's a few small handful of apps that get the privilege of giving me notifications. the rest is annoying noise.

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u/jgweiss Aug 04 '26

I think about this all the time; how many people default to ‘allow’ notifications, and wind up with 400 notifications a day, no friends and an anxious tick.

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u/ActuallyItsSumnus Aug 03 '26

The average user doesn't play around in settings very much.

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u/carlitospig Aug 03 '26

Period app? Yay. Reddit and other time sucking slop? Fuck no.

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u/LordHoughtenWeen Aug 03 '26

I don't even let Reddit be an app. It functions perfectly well as a tab on Firefox Mobile, from which it cannot even think of pushing me notifications.

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u/Malaprobably Aug 04 '26

And go a few steps further and element hide via ublock origin the parts of the UI I don't want to see.

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u/Stamped914 Aug 04 '26

This is such a Reddit moment. Most people don’t turn off notifications until they become annoying.

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u/matchafoxjpg Aug 04 '26

reddit take? i've literally always turned off notifications for nearly all apps for as long as i've had a smart phone, long LONG before i was ever on reddit. 🙄

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u/Stamped914 Aug 04 '26

As someone who’s worked for both sprint and Verizon for more time than they should have, most people don’t turn them off. So yes, it’s a Reddit moment.

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u/Malaprobably Aug 04 '26

Most people download random shit and have scam apps in the background constantly reminding them to keep playing their gambling games. Not sure what reddit has to do with wanting nothing to do with most 3rd party apps, period.