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My dad accepts every websites request to send notifications. His phone is just constant chime after chime. I went into his Chrome, removed them all, and disable
by donatj 4y ago
My dad accepts every websites request to send notifications. His phone is just constant chime after chime. I went into his Chrome, removed them all, and disabled the option, but somehow it finds itself on and his phone loaded with them every couple months.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoIt's because people assume that these things are benevolent because they were made by people. Gen X on down are natural skeptics so we don't end up with as much garbage on our phones, it's still possible to accidentally click a pop up when you were getting ready to hit a link.
- JustSomeNobody 4y ago> possible to accidentally click a pop up when you were getting ready to hit a link. I personally believe that some sites are designed to shift just a bit to cause this. Like they've used analytics to know how quickly people push the link and now they've designed a slow loading image to shift the page at that point.
- AlexandrB 4y agoAnd yet every time mobile Safari comes up people on this site go off about how it's "broken" because it does not support notifications from websites. There are legit uses of website notifications, but 99% will be spam like this.
- donatj 4y ago> There are legit uses of website notifications I have yet to see one
- duncan_idaho 4y ago99% of spam... like my email
- drewbeck 4y agoThey're coming. In 2023, according to the Safari section on this[1] page. 1: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/features/ https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/features/
- aasasd 4y agoMeanwhile FF allows one to just disable those requests altogether for all sites until further notice.