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		badfrog on Feb 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almo... > Shadow notifications? Is that the name for the "recent tweet from X" notifications? Those have made Twitter notifications completely useless for me. :(

r3bl on Feb 22, 2019 [–]

That's how I refer to all the notifications that I didn't expect and don't need.

As far as I know, there's no universal term for them. Since we already associate darkness with bad UX patterns, "shadow notifications" as a subset of "dark patterns" has a nice ring to it.

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