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I'm afraid this will backfire. We might see another wave of "click this icon in your browser to receive the latest notifications!" pop-ups showing up. Which wou
by MrGilbert 8y ago
I'm afraid this will backfire. We might see another wave of "click this icon in your browser to receive the latest notifications!" pop-ups showing up. Which would then require an adblocker to block these kind of popups.
So we use an ad-blocker to block a popup, which only appears because a browser vendor decided to hide a popup.
This is absurd.
- beat 8y agoI'm not so sure. Right now, everyone uses the popup because there isn't an alternative. If there's an alternative, popup use will go down some - but how much?
- nerdponx 8y agoNo, that's fine. Because the "click this button in your browser" popup is part of the normal webpage DOM and can be blocked using existing tools. As opposed to this notification, which was (ab)using the browser itself to spam the user.
- vsl 8y agoIt’s not fine. Safari lets me disable the requests globally, which I did, because every stupid website asks for notifications permissions. Since then, there’s a lot of in-page popups asking the same, exactly as described above. No adblocker seems to be effective against them, and writing custom rules for sites I visit once isn’t sensible use of time...