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Push notifications are also a terrible feature that I don’t want on any of my browsers including desktop Safari. I don’t want developers to even have the option

Push notifications are also a terrible feature that I don’t want on any of my browsers including desktop Safari. I don’t want developers to even have the option to show me a prompt to enable them.

jeroenhd 5y ago
I use notifications all the time in Firefox and Chrome. They're very useful for receiving updates about things like replies to comments, new videos from a certain video service and actual notifications from a few web apps. Terrible websites are no reason not to implement a feature on one platform but not another, just a reason to disable them by default. You can already do that in every decent browser, it'll ddeny access prompts without even bothering you. There's no reason to take the option away from everyone because a few people don't like it, that's what settings are for.
- throw0101a 5y ago
  > They're very useful for receiving updates about things like replies to comments, new videos from a certain video service and actual notifications from a few web apps. The service formerly known as RSS/Atom.
pixiemagic 5y ago
I like having them for certain sites, but in Firefox at least, you can block sites from even requesting them if you really never want to use them.
the_gipsy 5y ago
That notifications are annoying is a myth.
- dijit 5y ago
  The next advancement after the some of the first web-browsers was pop up blockers. So, at the very least; someone was annoyed at “notifications”.
  - the_gipsy 5y ago
    I’ve been using Android for some years, and notifications are a non-issue. Yet it always comes up from safari apologists.
    - skydhash 5y ago
      Don’t you think that notifications and all the associated things are what pushing people to iOS?
      - yourad_io 5y ago
        Not at all. On Android you've had the ability to mute notifications by type for some time now. Every app that spams me gets its "ad group" notification group muted. I hear that iOS 15 is going to include something similar.
    - spideymans 5y ago
      Novice users do not even know what it means to approve a notification. I look at their devices and often see a ton of web notifications that are objectively spam (eg, "tap here to meet hot singles"). The web notification spam is a huge issue.
- BoxOfRain 5y ago
  Speak for yourself, sharing an open office with a person whose phone resembles a casino with all the pinging and flashing is profoundly irritating, as is having to sort through a Sisyphean list of pointless alerts to the point actually important things get missed. I disable all notifications for everything by default, I'll look at your software on my schedule and nobody else's.

jeroenhd 5y ago

I use notifications all the time in Firefox and Chrome. They're very useful for receiving updates about things like replies to comments, new videos from a certain video service and actual notifications from a few web apps. Terrible websites are no reason not to implement a feature on one platform but not another, just a reason to disable them by default. You can already do that in every decent browser, it'll ddeny access prompts without even bothering you. There's no reason to take the option away from everyone because a few people don't like it, that's what settings are for.

throw0101a 5y ago
> They're very useful for receiving updates about things like replies to comments, new videos from a certain video service and actual notifications from a few web apps. The service formerly known as RSS/Atom.

pixiemagic 5y ago

I like having them for certain sites, but in Firefox at least, you can block sites from even requesting them if you really never want to use them.

the_gipsy 5y ago

That notifications are annoying is a myth.

dijit 5y ago
The next advancement after the some of the first web-browsers was pop up blockers. So, at the very least; someone was annoyed at “notifications”.
- the_gipsy 5y ago
  I’ve been using Android for some years, and notifications are a non-issue. Yet it always comes up from safari apologists.
  - skydhash 5y ago
    Don’t you think that notifications and all the associated things are what pushing people to iOS?
    - yourad_io 5y ago
      Not at all. On Android you've had the ability to mute notifications by type for some time now. Every app that spams me gets its "ad group" notification group muted. I hear that iOS 15 is going to include something similar.
  - spideymans 5y ago
    Novice users do not even know what it means to approve a notification. I look at their devices and often see a ton of web notifications that are objectively spam (eg, "tap here to meet hot singles"). The web notification spam is a huge issue.
BoxOfRain 5y ago
Speak for yourself, sharing an open office with a person whose phone resembles a casino with all the pinging and flashing is profoundly irritating, as is having to sort through a Sisyphean list of pointless alerts to the point actually important things get missed. I disable all notifications for everything by default, I'll look at your software on my schedule and nobody else's.