After years of users complaining about spam and irrelevant ads, Google will finally shut down the Nearby Notifications system on December 6th. Google said that the service did not meet the "high bar" the company holds to when delivering a user experience and will be shuttering the feature this winter.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Google-to-disable-Nearby-Notifications-following-three-years-of-complaints-of-spam-advertising.346451.0.html