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This guide seems to have reasonable guidelines for developers who want to use push notifications without being annoying, which is creditable; but IMO it's too l

This guide seems to have reasonable guidelines for developers who want to use push notifications without being annoying, which is creditable; but IMO it's too little, too late. The preponderance of random sites asking me to allow almost certainly spammy notifications has led to me instinctively disallowing all notification requests, and I will mentally penalize a site for showing me prompts popups about notifications as well. The only suggestion I might possibly have around this is to explicitly show the user a preview of all the possible types of notifications they might get at the point you ask them to sign up for it. If there are so many that it might get confusing, guess what, you should probably not send them in the first place.

moritonal 4y ago
A user will almost never _want_ unsolicited notifications, because they are by definition spam. If you have a radio-button saying "Get notified of new articles" which then enables them, you'd have a lower, but much more genuine following.
maccard 4y ago
> I will mentally penalize a site for showing me prompts popups about notifications as well. I don't like this either, but the reason it exists is that you can only prompt for actual notifications once, and there's no way to ask again, meaning the incentives are set up to only prompt at the OS level if you know the user will say yes.