Yes, initially, then I will enable them as I need them, not as the app wants them.

I bought an app to get heads up of northern lights, at first I disabled notifications, but that made the app pointless, so I have allowed some notifications.

Other than that, I only have notifications on my message app.

I disable notifications for everything I can, but some need to stay enabled. My line of work means I need to leave email notifications on, for example. Texts and other messaging apps are on too, because otherwise I’ll go days without talking to people. My blue light filter app also has a spot of the notification bar, so that I can always turn it off and on when I want to.

Apps are like friends. I WANT them to talk to me, just not until I i tell them to.

I’m not very aggressive about disabling[0] notifications. I don’t install apps that try to sell me stuff or otherwise manipulate me though so it’s rare I get unwanted notifications.

Quite a few commercial apps have perfectly good websites, and I use those in preference to apps most of the time.

[0] Technically just not enabling; Android now requires them to ask for permission before sending any

Ya, I only allow them for apps that I want to be notified for like email, Lemmy, etc basically messaging stuff.

If you don’t then some app somewhere is going to send you an ad as a “notification” which pisses me off to no end.