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"www.punkt.ch wants to send you notifications" Why do websites still do this? It's an immediate red flag that the underlying company have no respect for their
by 7734128 9mo ago
"www.punkt.ch wants to send you notifications"
Why do websites still do this? It's an immediate red flag that the underlying company have no respect for their customers.
- vbezhenar 9mo agoThe first thing I do when setting up new Chrome instance, is disabling almost every API in its settings, including Notifications API. You can always enable it later for a few selected websites (I'm using it for Telegram Web), and rest of the websites will just silently rejected.
- sallveburrpi 9mo agoIt’s kind of a given that the average HN reader won’t have any problems with this (like who is opening a browser without ublock origin on it?) - but like 90% of the population are powerless against this literal cyber bullying; it’s really sad
- BizarroLand 9mo agoYou could also stop using chrome and switch to waterfox or some other mozilla derivative. If you have a site that "requires" chrome, you can easily add a user-agent switcher extension to fool whatever JS nonsense that claims to require chrome.
- rationalist 9mo agoI would bet money that 99+% of the population never goes into their web browser's settings. Unfortunately I don't know of any way to prove or disprove that.
- IshKebab 9mo agoI've done this for passkeys.
- margalabargala 9mo agoIt's so they can notify their customers about their upcoming payments for the subscription to continue using the OS on the phone they bought.