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> Really tired of installing an app, forgetting about it,

I don't think that app can send a notification to you anyway. An app that's never opened by the user cannot be launched programmatically and cannot run background code.



They probably mean that they installed the app, used it for a little while, and then, forgot about it.


There's a difference between “never opened” and “only opened once”, and apparently the latter is sufficient to get notification spam days later. The mcdonalds app did this to me before I uninstalled it.


Yes it can, many app do it.




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