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Oh cool, so soon that nuisance will pop up in Chrome on every second website that wants to spam me. Just like Safari.

Laaw 11y ago
Notifications aren't new, this only changes how notifications work. If you're not currently using Chrome notifications, nothing changes for you.
macinjosh 11y ago
In Safari websites have to ask permission before it can send you notifications. They can't just 'spam' you. You can also completely disable them so you're never asked for permission. I don't use Chrome so I don't know what the norm is there.
- coldtea 11y ago
  >In Safari websites have to ask permission before it can send you notifications. They can't just 'spam' you. Since people visit tens of new websites everyday, asking permission once is also close to spamming -- it's a non solicited popup for something most don't care and don't want. And don't get me started with the BS "This site uses cookies, OK/Not OK" we get in Europe...
  - k-mcgrady 11y ago
    >> "Since people visit tens of new websites everyday" Source? From my experience people tend to visit the same few sites everyday. Personally I've seen that permission notification about 4 or 5 times in the several years it's been a feature.
    - coldtea 11y ago
      >From my experience people tend to visit the same few sites everyday. It's a power distribution. They visit their few sites everyday, but they also visit a long tail of sites for different things. Except if we're talking about Aunt May/Uncle Paul, who only go from their Outlook Mail to Facebook.
  - startling 11y ago
    > You can also completely disable them so you're never asked for permission
- tdicola 11y ago
  Asking permission is spamming IMHO.
  - fizzbatter 11y ago
    But that's (atleast on Chrome, for me) is just an Alert window, which is just as spammable.
    - tdicola 11y ago
      Yeah it's the principle of the thing though, when I'm browsing around and constantly getting yelled out (dialog pop ups, etc.) to subscribe to notifications it's really no different than the bad old days of pop ups and pop unders. If a site wants to be a jerk and spam alert dialogs that's fine and they might trick me once but I'll never visit the site again. However with notifications it's junk that every website feels they need to have and is almost unavoidable these days.
      - Touche 11y ago
        That's odd, I've browsed dozens of sites today and didn't get any notification permission dialogs. Perhaps you're exaggerating slightly?
        kuschku 11y ago
        I’ve noticed that when browsing the web without ad blockers, you are constantly spammed for such dialogs, and ads that vibrate your phone, etc. Quite annoying.
        Camillo 11y ago
        What web are you guys even browsing? hardsexwarez-download.ru or something? I haven't used ad blockers in years and the problems you are describing are completely alien to me.
        11y ago
username223 11y ago
Go to Preferences > Notifications, and uncheck the checkbox at the bottom left. I did this after exactly 5 websites pestered me, and I've since forgotten about this spam conduit. It's telling, though, that Apple added a whole extra preference pane to deal with the awfulness.

Laaw 11y ago

Notifications aren't new, this only changes how notifications work. If you're not currently using Chrome notifications, nothing changes for you.

macinjosh 11y ago

In Safari websites have to ask permission before it can send you notifications. They can't just 'spam' you. You can also completely disable them so you're never asked for permission. I don't use Chrome so I don't know what the norm is there.

coldtea 11y ago
>In Safari websites have to ask permission before it can send you notifications. They can't just 'spam' you. Since people visit tens of new websites everyday, asking permission once is also close to spamming -- it's a non solicited popup for something most don't care and don't want. And don't get me started with the BS "This site uses cookies, OK/Not OK" we get in Europe...
- k-mcgrady 11y ago
  >> "Since people visit tens of new websites everyday" Source? From my experience people tend to visit the same few sites everyday. Personally I've seen that permission notification about 4 or 5 times in the several years it's been a feature.
  - coldtea 11y ago
    >From my experience people tend to visit the same few sites everyday. It's a power distribution. They visit their few sites everyday, but they also visit a long tail of sites for different things. Except if we're talking about Aunt May/Uncle Paul, who only go from their Outlook Mail to Facebook.
- startling 11y ago
  > You can also completely disable them so you're never asked for permission
tdicola 11y ago
Asking permission is spamming IMHO.
- fizzbatter 11y ago
  But that's (atleast on Chrome, for me) is just an Alert window, which is just as spammable.
  - tdicola 11y ago
    Yeah it's the principle of the thing though, when I'm browsing around and constantly getting yelled out (dialog pop ups, etc.) to subscribe to notifications it's really no different than the bad old days of pop ups and pop unders. If a site wants to be a jerk and spam alert dialogs that's fine and they might trick me once but I'll never visit the site again. However with notifications it's junk that every website feels they need to have and is almost unavoidable these days.
    - Touche 11y ago
      That's odd, I've browsed dozens of sites today and didn't get any notification permission dialogs. Perhaps you're exaggerating slightly?
      - kuschku 11y ago
        I’ve noticed that when browsing the web without ad blockers, you are constantly spammed for such dialogs, and ads that vibrate your phone, etc. Quite annoying.
        Camillo 11y ago
        What web are you guys even browsing? hardsexwarez-download.ru or something? I haven't used ad blockers in years and the problems you are describing are completely alien to me.
        11y ago

username223 11y ago

Go to Preferences > Notifications, and uncheck the checkbox at the bottom left. I did this after exactly 5 websites pestered me, and I've since forgotten about this spam conduit. It's telling, though, that Apple added a whole extra preference pane to deal with the awfulness.