> Every news website, and every other random website out there is asking users for permission Maybe we can dial back the hyperbole here. I agree that this (whi

> Every news website, and every other random website out there is asking users for permission Maybe we can dial back the hyperbole here. I agree that this (which is the Notification API, not the Web Push API) is being abused, but I can't recall having seen it on any major news web site. I actually see it far more on stuff like tech blogs that are also obsessed with converting me to being a newsletter reader. But yes, it's infuriating. Safari is probably the worst as it presents a modal popup - at least in Chrome it doesn't take focus. The solution seems very simple: make it only work in response to a click event. Which is something browsers already do for a lot of stuff (like opening a window) and I'm mystified as to why the browser manufacturers didn't factor this in when implementing in the first place.