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MLS spamming fan calendars
Manual calendar entry may be the preferred method, after all
If you signed up to sync the Philadelphia Union’s schedule to one of your calendars in the cloud, chances are you received an intrusive notification at noon Thursday informing you of a “today only” 20 percent off gear sale “event.”
Like the one below.
If you were annoyed about getting an event notification for a sale, you have every right to be. The point of a calendar is to keep track of actual events, not some random sale on a website smack dab in the middle of the work day.
Ben Bromley at Black and Red United shared an update Thursday afternoon on his initial report noting that the push notifications were sent through eCal, which was the third-party service MLS previously used, and not Stanza, which is the current system in use by the league:
