> are the notifications not meant to be encrypted? Such that the browser vendor can't see the contents? No, the Windows API's for showing the notification (or

> are the notifications not meant to be encrypted? Such that the browser vendor can't see the contents? No, the Windows API's for showing the notification (or for any OS) are going to need to know the text to render and the image to display, which is information the browser will have to tell those API's. > send public transit alerts Probably the only legitimate use case I've heard but I've personally used apps from the transit companies for this.