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I agree that it's a great feature. It's just actively terrible for 99.9999% of websites. There is a user-gesture restriction. So now there's an HTML pop-up on
by rektide 4y ago
I agree that it's a great feature. It's just actively terrible for 99.9999% of websites.
There is a user-gesture restriction. So now there's an HTML pop-up on dozens of pages.
Imo the user-gesture + permission-modal design is fundamentally bad. We penalize sites by making them have to maim their cover with grotesque user-gesture cutouts, then, once the user clicks (makes a user gesture) they have to click again. Sites should just request push notifications, without user gestures. Something should show up in the awesome-bar, and users can enable it at their leasure. Rather than an active "pull" flow for permissions, we need a "push" flow where users can passively enable/disable some permissions freely, in a more chill way. Conversion rates would plummet, but the whole web would be a much more pleasant place & actually operate for-the-user, which is what the internet is for[1].
[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8890 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8890