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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
by 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 agoAsking permission is spamming IMHO.
- fizzbatter 11y agoBut that's (atleast on Chrome, for me) is just an Alert window, which is just as spammable.
- tdicola 11y agoYeah 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 agoThat's odd, I've browsed dozens of sites today and didn't get any notification permission dialogs. Perhaps you're exaggerating slightly?
- kuschku 11y agoI’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.