tl;dr: Notification channels, which were introduced with Android 8, are now disabled by default and one has now to enable them manually (screenshots below by Android Police):
tl;dr: Notification channels, which were introduced with Android 8, are now disabled by default and one has now to enable them manually (screenshots below by Android Police):
They use them improperly on purpose. Google is an ad company so don’t expect them to help you reign in ads. We live in an attention economy and these companies want to take that from you and monetize it.
Every modern service has shit all over notifications, so I just have the vast majority of them disabled entirely. I used to spend hours setting up notifications to get a curated feed of what’s important. And it used to be an impulse for me to get “inbox zero” when I saw notifications and clear them all out. Now I don’t even look at them.
I put an auto-responder on some of my “chat” services because even those are just full of spam and ads now.