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I agree with most of the post, but I think making it hard to enable web push notifications is a good thing. The most common way I’ve seen web notifications used
by ndiddy 1y ago
I agree with most of the post, but I think making it hard to enable web push notifications is a good thing. The most common way I’ve seen web notifications used is websites tricking old people into clicking “enable notifications” and then constantly sending them ads and scams as notifications. Since web notifications became a thing, literally every single computer or android phone I’ve interacted with that’s owned by someone over 65 is shitted up by an endless stream of “Your computer has been hacked, call now for support”, “I’m in your area and horny, can we chat?”, “You won’t BELIEVE what happened to x celebrity”, etc.
- ocdtrekkie 1y agoYep, the Notifications API I consider an antifeature that should never have been made available to websites, but Apple's approach to implementation is at least responsible.
- alyandon 1y agoMy relatively technically literate older parents fell for that crap as well. Their tablets were virtually unusable because of full screen scam ads being shown as notifications. Also, * No Autoplay for Video or Music I'm having a hard time getting myself worked up over this. There should be no universe where any application (web or native) is allowed to perform autoplay without explicit user consent.