Or you could think just as hard about blocking it as you do about circumventing it, like in the case of this scenario, add weight to users. Obviously newly installed app users who are rating badly is a sign of something fishy, weigh their ratings a LOT lower than someone who has say many hours of usage in the app.
if i don't want the notification i'll disable/silence/mute/lower the priority of it either on installation of the app or when it starts to offend.
That argument could equally be used to argue that push notifications shouldn't be implemented at all.
It amuses me to think that some people probably believed that email would never go anywhere as a technology because spam.
The emergence and frowth of spam has greatly reduced how much people use email, though. It appears that spam is well on its way to effectively killing it.
Marketers do seem to eventually kill anything they touch.
No shit. The postal system was solidly established before postal spam existed too.
Email spam's existence was anticipated though.
