Notifications spam... WTF?

I just got bit by this and suffered through many seconds of intense spiritual discomfort before finding a cure.

There's a new contender for the "Most annoying stuff" award, and it's called AirPush.  There's a few implementations with different names, but that seem to be by what the idea's generally referred.

What this does is push random spam to your notification bar.  That place where you keep an eye to detect missed email, battery status and other useful tidbits gets hijacked by irrelevant crap.

Good news is, there's solutions.  The more obvious one is to figure out what application's guilty and remove it forever.  If you're kind, also take a second to put a one star rating on the market to help other users avoid getting bit.

There's a small app, Airpush Detector, that'll pinpoint the culprit.  It's free, small, and require no permission.  The kind of app that can stay on your phone forever even if you never use it.

If you absolutely must keep the guilty app, there's other less elegant means to protect yourself.  Those include Airblock and Airblocker (for rooted phones) that are supposed to filter the crap.  Or you can try AirPush's Permanent Opt Out, either through their web site or the market app.  But I fear you'll have to do something similar for every company that have it's own name and implementation.