This popped up on my work laptop yesterday. Very annoying.

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    3 months ago

    There’s a reason I have my windows configured for do not disturb/focus mode, I can’t say I’ve seen a notification come through that was actually relevant for me. The vast majority of what I’ve seen come through notifications are app spam, and I ain’t got time for that

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      3 months ago

      Agreed. Seems the notification tray in Windows is just a catch-all for spam (mostly from MS themselves)

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        Nah, browsers are so much worse, but that’s because most users blindly accept notifications from any sketch website then call and cry to IT because they “got a virus”.

        I don’t miss my days supporting end users…

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          3 months ago

          We configured an allowlist of domains allowed to send notifications through our GPOs, everything else is blocked to the end-users. It reduced the amount of calls related to “virus alert” for sure.

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          First thing I do when I open Firefox or Chrome for the first time is go into settings and disable the ability for websites to request notifications permissions

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      3 months ago

      I absolutely hate when Windows will give you a different notification for each email that comes in, then an additional one to tell you “mail has new messages.” Get out of my fucking way!

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        3 months ago

        As far as I can tell outlook will call out the title of the first 3 emails in a minute, then if further emails arrive you get the general message.

        Its really just a ‘we are rate limiting our notifications, check your inbox’ message.