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Block Ads in Apps on Android

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182 points whalabi | 2 comments | 20 Feb 19 14:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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gwbas1c ◴[20 Feb 19 20:59 UTC] No.19211917[source]▶
Honestly, I want something that blocks spam notifications.

Specifically, things like "you have a free credit" notification from Lyft, or Amazon's "Check out our new sale" notification.

My phone should not ding for nonsense like that. That is SPAM, and that is not something that I need to know immediately.

The problem is that apps like Lyft and Amazon have rather important notifications, so blocking all notifications from those apps is not possible.

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whalabi ◴[20 Feb 19 21:12 UTC] No.19212028[source]▶
Oh boy I'm with you 100%

Especially when it's an app I want or need, and it has notifications I need, but still sends out spammy ones too.

I think this is possible on Android as you can give apps access to notifications, so it could filter them.

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1. xur17 ◴[20 Feb 19 21:31 UTC] No.19212192[source]▶
I want this for chrome on desktop as well. A large portion of websites are now asking for 'notification' permissions, when it most cases it makes no sense (think news websites).
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2. whalabi ◴[20 Feb 19 21:44 UTC] No.19212302[source]▶
Yeah this bugs me too

Also (although I'm going on a tangent now) there's mobile news sites that require 3 or 4 clicks before I can read the article: close the app download prompt, the gpdr prompt, the subscribe prompt, the video hovering over half the screen.... It's maddening.