Google kills off Android’s spam-ridden Nearby Notifications

Google kills off Android’s spam-ridden Nearby Notifications

When Google introduced the Nearby Notifications feature back in 2015 along with 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. The idea was that developers could set up location-based beacons that would ping a person’s device stuff they might …