--- title: Ruminations on notifications | daily.dev description: A personal, opinionated rant about how notifications across apps, browsers, phones, and government alert systems have become an annoyance rather than a useful... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ruminations-on-notifications-ryewobh6f twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ruminations on notifications | daily.dev og:description: A personal, opinionated rant about how notifications across apps, browsers, phones, and government alert systems have become an annoyance rather than a useful... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ruminations-on-notifications-ryewobh6f og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ryeWOBh6F.png og:image:alt: Ruminations on notifications og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ruminations on notifications **[dbushell](https://daily.dev/sources/dbushell)** · 5 min read · 4 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary A personal, opinionated rant about how notifications across apps, browsers, phones, and government alert systems have become an annoyance rather than a useful feature. The author covers redundant Apple Pay and banking notifications, needy desktop apps like Vivaldi, CLI tools like Neovim interrupting workflows, web push notification permission prompts, Apple's declarative web push and unreliable cloud sync, Proton Mail spam notification bugs, Apple's persistent iOS 26 upgrade nagging, and the UK government's overzealous emergency alert system that triggered false 999 calls. The overall argument is that most senders cannot be trusted with direct access to users' attention and granular controls are rarely available. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@jeanne** · 0 upvotes > I fired my upvote right from the first paragraph about NFC payment notifications lol. This rant is as delightful as this good old [What is a Dickover?](https://dly.to/sucF1ovc17o) **@petermrozek** · 0 upvotes > > My advice, look for this (showing the option to block notification by default) > > I've never actually considered blocking notification requests globally. I just blocked it as things came. Thanks, it's now a global setting for me. 😉 > > > In all my years of building websites I’ve never had a single client request or even consider notifications. > > Same here - over 20 years in the business and not even a single one. > > It seems the ones that use notifications the most are the ones selling something: shopping outlets, media groups, etc. Well, I make them silent more or less on the same principles the... ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The modern app](https://daily.dev/posts/the-modern-app-2auvtikde) · dbushell · 2 upvotes · 1 comments - [Push notifications finally solved my home lab alerting problem that email never could](https://daily.dev/posts/push-notifications-finally-solved-my-home-lab-alerting-problem-that-email-never-could-f1wse3kub) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ux](https://daily.dev/tags/ux), [#browsers](https://daily.dev/tags/browsers) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ruminations-on-notifications-ryewobh6f) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Ruminations on notifications","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ruminations-on-notifications-ryewobh6f","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ruminations-on-notifications-ryewobh6f"},"datePublished":"2026-08-19T14:09:53.918Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T19:20:15.477Z","description":"A personal, opinionated rant about how notifications across apps, browsers, phones, and government alert systems have become an annoyance rather than a useful...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/cff4d1a6d02fd20fa34049f0597b6811?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/cff4d1a6d02fd20fa34049f0597b6811?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"dbushell","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"dbushell","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--o8r11ve8--/f_auto,q_auto/v1776585822/logos/dbushell","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/dbushell"},"commentCount":2,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/ruminations-on-notifications-ryewobh6f","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}],"keywords":"ux,browsers","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"dbushell","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/dbushell"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Ruminations on notifications"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ruminations-on-notifications-ryewobh6f","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"I fired my upvote right from the first paragraph about NFC payment notifications lol. This rant is as delightful as this good old What is a Dickover?","datePublished":"2026-08-21T07:49:47.365Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ryeWOBh6F#c-IpqTxVVRX","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeanne Auvray","url":"https://daily.dev/jeanne","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--O0TOmw4y--/f_auto/v1715772965/public/noProfile"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"My advice, look for this (showing the option to block notification by default)\n\nI’ve never actually considered blocking notification requests globally. I just blocked it as things came. Thanks, it’s now a global setting for me. 😉\n\nIn all my years of building websites I’ve never had a single client request or even consider notifications.\n\nSame here - over 20 years in the business and not even a single one.\nIt seems the ones that use notifications the most are the ones selling something: shopping outlets, media groups, etc. Well, I make them silent more or less on the same principles the author of the article does.\nAlso, his AI policies are spot on. 🙂\nEDIT: The goldfish is cool. 😁","datePublished":"2026-08-23T11:35:14.208Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T11:35:57.579Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ryeWOBh6F#c-p1sFOvu8g","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Peter Mrożek","url":"https://daily.dev/petermrozek","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--pBfYX68K--/f_auto/v1769247960/avatars/avatar_Qz65P1nVw3Bu6C5YwaZgA?_a=BAMAMiiu0"}}]} ```