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"Its for your own safety kiddo. Those stuff are dangerous and will harm your device" When companies use the same logic of spreading fear to manipulate and ulti
by oscargrouch 6y ago
"Its for your own safety kiddo. Those stuff are dangerous and will harm your device"
When companies use the same logic of spreading fear to manipulate and ultimately control as the war on terror/war on drugs from Bush/Nixon, you know something is really wrong.
- qwertox 6y agoTo be fair, push notifications from websites can be harmful if the user doesn't understand them. I know of a person who just clicked the "allow notifications" in order to not get bothered by the popup, and then they started getting notifications with sex offers and stuff like that. The website which triggered them was https://open4u.co.uk https://open4u.co.uk, which was prominently recommended by Google due to its positioning in the search results.
- rewq4321 6y agoThe user agent gets to choose how the permission requests are shown - that's not part of the spec. For example, they can choose to ignore permission requests until the user has interacted with the site for a significant amount of time. They can make the permission prompt more explicit and "scary". They can choose to only allow notifications after the site has been added to the home screen. This is not a question of safety at all - Apple has control over how many people get tricked via their control over the permission prompt.