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It’s time for a hard reset on notifications

Push notifications should be a privilege, not a right.

Android offers better controls and mercifully shunts some offenders to a “silent” inbox, but it’s not totally off the hook, either.On both platforms, notifications have been and continue to be a constant distraction, a plague upon our already razor-thin attention spans. Or you can opt in to them if you desperately want to hear from the Starbucks app every single day, but you should have to go out of your way to do that and should not be the default behavior when you choose “allow notifications.” Just an idea! However it happens, I think it’s time that power over notifications be returned to the people, not the app developers who want us to check out these Deals!

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