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This feature should never have existed. I used to work in a computer repair shop and saw hundreds of people with spam, scams, and malicious content piped direct
by KevinGlass 4y ago
This feature should never have existed. I used to work in a computer repair shop and saw hundreds of people with spam, scams, and malicious content piped directly to their computer. Most people have no idea how to make it stop, have no idea where it came from, but are aware it's happening and hate it.
Browser push is probably close to 100% malicious or ads at this point. It's directly enabled scammers to steal 10s of millions of dollars.
If Google came out with a feature that just stole $50 of iTunes gift cards from your granny no one would want it. That was browser push is at this point.
- lloydatkinson 4y agoYes, these types of stories are incredibly common unfortunately. The advice here should be taken on board by any repair shop.
- rejectfinite 4y ago>This feature should never have existed The feature is needed for browser based mail, chat, calendar, meetings etc like office.com, Teams, Slack Yes, they all have native apps but some like to use web versions or being logged in to different accounts
- yamtaddle 4y agoThe less-than-1% of Web push message volume that is desired and helpful is a no-brainer sacrifice to get rid of the 99+% that's unwanted, accidentally-enabled spam. Of course, short of just getting rid of it, we could make it like RSS where there's just a little icon and you have to choose to engage with it to use it, otherwise you won't even realize it's there. But I expect that amounts to the same thing, and the feature'd be dead before long, being too much effort to keep up for something that nearly no-one would both know is there and want to use. Probably usage levels similar to FTP in the browser, and that got axed.