The selection has two options: yes please! Remind me later.

Excuse me?

"Please accept Discord's new privacy policy and user agreement before the app will open"

CSCPay Mobile is the app my apartment complex uses to digitally pay for and monitor laundry. It even sends notifications when the cycles complete. Not bad, right? Well, the app also sends “partner offers” as notifications, which cannot be disabled. They also would send unsolicited email offers as well.

I turned all of that off, and set timers on my phone instead. I’m sure they are selling my data also.

Are there actually apps that refuse to work if you don't give them notification permission? I don't think I ran into one

I am finally the train for once. Usually I am the school bus.

The app is a push notification app.

I'll accept that out of an alarm app. An alarm app gets to say "Look I straight-up need push notifications to work."

Maaaaaaaaybe a messaging app. Signal gets to send push notifications.

Tell me you used Office Lens for a decade without using those words.

Typical, only to be a citizen tracker app that front ends a WP website.

Ah, yeah, that was the White House official app. I got confused for a moment there.