As someone who has purchased the app & carefully selected its settings for my desired usage, I'm quite disappointed with it running in the background at device startup. This not only detracts from optimizing device battery consumption, but adds the annoyance of frequent & unsolicited notifications that urge me to use various app features. Also, if you wish to push your recommended articles to read to your users, please do so by offering the option to subscribe to an email newsletter. :(