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> push notifications Dear god no. These should never have been a thing in fact. Especially for untrusted websites. I should make a website that abuses them jus
by Something1234 6y ago
> push notifications
Dear god no. These should never have been a thing in fact. Especially for untrusted websites. I should make a website that abuses them just to make my point. Their only value is getting an eyeball back on to the ads. This is one thing Apple did right.
- SahAssar 6y agoThe same argument is true for push notifications in native apps. For both you can accept or deny them, and some apps (like chat, email, todo) that primarily display text and give you a notification when something happens could just aswell be a web app instead. Web push notifications does not mean any random site can spam you just because you visited it once. You have to explicitly accept it.
- reissbaker 6y agoWhat are you talking about? "Untrusted websites" can't send push notifications. Being able to send push notifications requires a browser-level popup dialog that the user explicitly has to opt into, for each individual website. There's no drive-by API that lets you spam random website visitors with push notifications. I don't see how you could "make a website that abuses them just to make [your] point." No one would bother enabling notifications for your abusive website, and even if you managed to convince them to do it, they'd just turn them off for your abusive website as soon as you started spamming them.
- berkes 6y agoYup. On my Android, each of those push-notifications come with a "configure notifications" which lets you turn them off quickly and easily. Ironically, I use that feature for installed apps most (you're a banking app, stop bugging me with unrelated news!) and hardly ever to turn off a accidentally allowed web-notification.