No one in my life understands this. I haaaaate having these notifications. The worst ones are those that can’t be cleared.
Some sites have started sending them to you before you’ve even done anything!
Never been to this site before? Don’t worry, chat bubble in the upper corner already displaying a little red dot with a 5 in it. There’s already an AI chatbot trying to offer help and discounts off on things and … AUGH!
I just ignore them. At some point they lose any meaning whatsoever
I do too, but I’ve started missing way too many of the notifications that I actually want to register receiving. Recently I’ve taken a round of actually enable/disable notifications on things so that I’ll be better at filtering out and catching the stuff I want to pay attention to.
Notifications are a cognitohazard
They are an SCP
I think most launchers (on Android) allow to hide these “dots”
The notification settings on iOS let you disable that entire feature. No badges, no banners, no dings, what happens when I open the Mail app after a week? IT’S A SURPRISE!
The only thing on my phone that’s allowed to notify me are messaging apps, and even then, only for direct messages, not groups.
Social media, games, sites, and everything else can all fuck right off - you do not get to demand my attention unbidden, and if you misbehave you are going in the trash.
