I clicked "accept" on about half a dozen of these from news sites sometime back just to see what would happen and I never got any alerts. I suspect sites enabl

I clicked "accept" on about half a dozen of these from news sites sometime back just to see what would happen and I never got any alerts. I suspect sites enable it just because their news platform has a checkbox for it, then never send anything out because the acceptance rate is so low (or it would take more effort than checking a box).