One of the tricks the various platforms do is to push two-factor authentication for security purposes, which is a fine idea, but then they make it so you can't use two-factor without having their own phone app installed and general notifications enabled.
Or there's YouTube's cute one: making it impossible to separately control in-browser notifications when you're on the web page, and app notifications on your phone. You opt out of one, you lose the other.
Matt McIrvin
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2025-09-14 12:13:41 UTC
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