Ability to filter notification types

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Firefox mobile is working on adding notification settings. We would like to give the user the option to opt-out of specific notifications related to Accounts.

• a user can opt-out of only notifications related to devices connecting/disconnecting
• a user can opt-out of only notifications related to send tab
• etc… (I don’t know the exhaustive list of all the notifications)

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Task

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➤ Ben Dean-Kawamura commented:

This seems like a nice feature, but I thought these notifications were handled exclusively by firefox-ios. Do you know of anything on the sync side that we would need to change?

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➤ Daniela Arcese commented:

Tarik Eshaq has context here 🙂

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➤ Tarik Eshaq commented:

Thanks Daniela Arcese ! I asked Daniela to file this here so we can triage.

The ask in our side (and FxA) is to allow each consumers (iOS/Fenix) to set which push notifications are enabled and which aren’t. For example, a client could want to receive password changes but not when a new device connected.

In practice this would be a modification of the device payload we send to FxA and new logic on FxA auth server to only send notifications to auto push that the receiving device is opted into.

Unless there is an immediate need to do this now, we can keep this on our backlog but it would be a great opportunity to collaborate with FxA team on small project!