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Seriously, I'm already sick of "let me send you desktop notifications!" popups.
by kemayo 3y ago
Seriously, I'm already sick of "let me send you desktop notifications!" popups.
- kitsunesoba 3y agoAll browsers should have a setting that just tells all sites that notifications are enabled but never actually shows them until the user opts in so sites can't present those stupid prompts.
- dev_tty01 3y agoAnd why attempt to start sending notifications if it is the first time I have visited a site? I don't know the site, I haven't had time to read any of the content. Why would I possibly want to get notifications from a site I know nothing about? Maybe if I visit it several more times in the next week or two, then ask me if I want notifications if you feel you must. Anything else is just annoying and sort of mindless.
- kitsunesoba 3y agoSites likely do this to prey on "yes-click syndrome" where people just blindly mow through prompts to get to whatever it was they came for more quickly.
- fatfox 3y agoTo turn off notification popups, in Safari... 1. Go to Settings 2. Open Websites tab 3. Select General -> Notifications 4. Untick "Allow websites to ask for permission to send notifications" No more notification popups!
- bobbylarrybobby 3y agoUnfortunately many websites send a JS-based notification which can't be blocked before prompting you for the system one. I think the idea is that that can spam the JS one as much as they want, but once you say no to the system one, that's it, they can't prompt with it again.
- mszcz 3y agoYeah, I hate that. It's usually easy to spot, so I click "allow" on the JS notification and then block the real one when it pops up.
- isametry 3y agoToday I learned, thanks! I kind of wish there was a "Block and notify" option though, like there is with pop-up windows. One reason is that sometimes you might actually want to enable them, but it seems like there's no indication of the attempt at all. But even for crappy websites, it would also be nice to know that they tried because it's one of the things that help to weed them out more easily.
- kemayo 3y agoI'm sort of resistant to that, because despite never having actually wanted to do so I keep thinking that there might someday be a site I'll want to allow notifications on...
- princevegeta89 3y ago+1. I've never needed that crap and can assume the vast huge majority of users won't either. The Notifications Api only exists for websites as marketing channels and spamming. Think of email spam but one that's right in your face.
- Steltek 3y agoFirefox solved this years ago. The only indication is a little icon in the address bar. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/11/04/restricting-notification-permission-prompts-in-firefox/ https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/11/04/restricti...
- ziml77 3y agoThe nasty thing that some sites will prompt you via a notification within the page. They want people who decline to do it there because it means they can try to bother you about it later (the request to the browser to show notifications was never made in this case). The strategy with those is to accept the prompt in the page and then deny it at the browser level, but that's not something many people would know.