Google spamming users via the Play Store app

I recently got an unwanted ad notification, aka spam, from the Play Store app. It was about Google Play Points in combination with Pokemon Go, an app I never used. I had notifications for marketing purposes disabled in the app.
So, naturally I contacted the Google support and was more than surprised to actually get an answer. But it isn't a pleasant experience to deal with the support. First they tried to deflect it by claiming it might be another app displaying notification spam. And after back and forth and a screenshot they now realized it was indeed the Play Store.
Their solution: disable all notifications for the Play Store...

So, basically their own support asks you to cripple their own app, by deactivating all notification, even the helpful ones of this crucial system app, to get rid of notification spam that Google itself sends out by ignoring the marketing settings of the user. Great.

Has anyone else also got this spam? I can't be the only one.



Submitted October 28, 2020 at 08:41PM by Mugros https://ift.tt/34CHNBi https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

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