Android’s Nearby Notifications led to too much spam, so Google is turning it off

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As it stated in Google is discontinuing Nearby Notifications later this year it said, after it noticed Android users were receiving also much spam from the feature. Since Nearby's launch in 2015, the feature has become a aim for marketers and less of a user-friendly information guide. Your Android device could typically get pinged the time you venture near a location by beacons. Ultimately, though, Android users of10 searched for ways to disable Nearby Notifications. In its post today, Google said "we have a extremely high bar for the quality of content that we deliver to users, especially content that is delivered out of notifications." By December 6th, the feature going to be removed.

Google kills off Android's spam-ridden Nearby Notifications

When Google introduced the Nearby Notifications feature back in 2015 along by some other location-based services, the company imagined it as service that would proactively provide useful information to people as they went about their day. Nearby Notifications was part of Google's effort to bring information to people before they have to ask for it. Google Assistant offers similar preemptive recommendations, and the company introduced an entire predictive app system in Android P called Actions and Slices. Unfortunately, Nearby Notifications became bogged down by annoying notifications from spammers. Android users going to shighest receiving any pings from Nearby Notifications.

Google is shutting down Android's Nearby Notifications due to excess spam

as informed in In the case of Nearby Notifications, that's exactly what happened and you've got to praise Google for realizing this. It's been more than 2 years ever Google created Nearby Notifications, a method for Android users to discover relevant and engaging content When out and about. Predictably, what turned into a potentially useful service was more or less ruined by marketers that created locally irrelevant and spammy notifications. As such, Google going to discontinue backing for Nearby Notifications on December 6. At that time, Android developers going to no longer be able to send Eddystone and Physical Web beacon notifications and users going to shighest receiving them.