Monzo Ukrainian Appeal

[16bitkieran (Kieran)]

Just seen this in app.

[Peter_G]

Better late than never!

Top work, Monzofolk.

[coffeemadman (Jonathon 🏳️‍🌈)]

Have other banks done this already? I know Chase have but haven’t seen others.

[bee]

super proud of the team that worked on this, they’ve been working non-stop to implement this

[Peter_G]

Do you need to have marketing preferences turned on, do you know? I haven’t seen it (but I have all the toggles set to off).

[16bitkieran (Kieran)]

I have personalised marketing turned on.

[_Tom]

I know Metro Bank are currently accepting donations through their Magic Money Machines where usually the donations went to a cancer trust but now goes towards a fund that is directed to help Ukraine (I can’t remember the funds actual name).

[Sachaz (Sacha Zarb)]

Good to see, maybe it’s just rolling out as we speak

[_Tom]

It should be here for anyone looking for it;

Just at the top of your transactions on the main page

[Peter_G]

@N26throwaway

so it doesn’t show on my my bank statement as looking like a donation and the charity never knows who made it,

I get the charity not knowing who donated (although it’s financially better for everyone if you use gift aid), but why not on your bank statement? Are you trying to hide your charitable donations from yourself?!

[DaveJ (Dave)]

I’ve not seen this spam in app yet, will be cleared as soon as I do though.

[tbutz (🏳️‍🌈 Producer of "low value commentary")]

An appeal for charity is not “spam”.

[DaveJ (Dave)]

Literally the definition of spam

“irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the internet, typically to a large number of users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, etc.”

I haven’t asked for it, it’s been sent to a mass market, it’s advertising a charity appeal.

It’s horses for courses, it’s spam to me, but I’ll not carry on as that detracts from the thread and will be off topic.

[Ordog]

I have all marketing things enabled and don’t have this yet

[Lightning720]

I havent seen anything encouraging donations in app at my other banks, but Santander does have this on their homepage

[coffeemadman (Jonathon 🏳️‍🌈)]

@DaveJ

“irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the internet, typically to a large number of users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, etc.”

I suppose one could argue it’s not irrelevant in this current situation, nor does it fall under advertising/phishing/malware?

[breville_monkey]

@coffeemadman

I suppose one could argue it’s not irrelevant in this current situation

I guess it means ‘irrelevant to the user’ and this sort of message probably is irrelevant to a lot of people for one reason or another.

If it somehow meant ‘contemporarily relevant to a wider society’ then you could almost label anything as ‘relevant’.

Edit: I’d also argue it’s main purpose is advertising although I suppose that’s a bit contentious.

[lpoolrob (Rob)]

I would 100% say it is spam, however I would also say I have no objection to it in the current climate.

[gt94sss2]

As do HSBC and Lloyds…

[gallifreyangirl]

Not showing on my feed either on iOS TestFlight