The issue is that people will overlook it on IM sites now and then complain that there is no way to get notifications without an app. So, the browser vendors w

The issue is that people will overlook it on IM sites now and then complain that there is no way to get notifications without an app. So, the browser vendors worked around this by making it prominent. I think the interface was actually pretty reasonable for these legitimate use cases. Unfortunately, reasonable tools that capture traffic will always be abused.