I too take any unwanted notification as a potential threat: the only answer is immediate annihilation of said app. Basically the dark forest hypothesis but it’s my phone.

Based
My phone my rules

Duolingo is the only exception.

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And handling notifications is all smart watches seem to be good for!

That’s what’s good about android, all apps need to ask if they can send notifications when first installed. I rarely allow it.