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The pattern is usually worse than you think, because you click "not now". Typically, the browser or phone OS does enforce a yes-or-no answer, and if you pick "
by ThrustVectoring 4y ago
The pattern is usually worse than you think, because you click "not now".
Typically, the browser or phone OS does enforce a yes-or-no answer, and if you pick "no" the site or app is not allowed to ask again. So the "Would you like notifications" screen doesn't actually use the host program's API to enable notifications, it just brings up the dialog and asks you again.
This often means that there is a "no and stop asking" option. You just have to realize which dialogs are brought up by the application or the host environment, "accept" the application's request, and then deny the actual permissions request.
- Consultant32452 4y agoYep, if the web page asks if I want notifications, I click "Yes" and then when my browser asks, I say "No." Permanently blocked and worked around the broken anti-user pattern.
- horsawlarway 4y agoI don't want them ever: chrome://settings/content/notifications check the box next to - "Don't allow sites to send notifications Features that need notifications won't work" --- edit: I'll add, a lot of times you'll still need to click "yes" to the site popup asking if you want notifications, so the shitty user tracking they're doing will mark you as enabled. But it skips the second step of having to click no to the actual browser prompt.
- rnk 4y agoThe question is what notifications won't show up? Maybe a 'you have email' or 'you have a meeting in 10 minutes'. Only the meeting notification is useful to me out of the thousands of times websites asked. Thanks for pointing out that setting.