Push Notifications Are Out of Control
There must be better ways of opting out.
by Amanda Mull http://www.theatlantic.com/author/amanda-mull/?utm_source=scribd
May 25, 2023
3 minutes
A couple of years ago, I got a text from a friend that read simply, “This seems bad.” With it was a screenshot of something that did seem, at best, : an iPhone push notification from the sports-betting app DraftKings, laden with emoji and extolling the day’s promotional gambling deals. “Yikes,” I murmured at my phone screen. Sports betting had not yet been legalized in my state, so this was my first encounter with how betting apps would work, and in that moment, I felt not a little bit foolish. Of course they’d
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