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Chrome 42 Launches with Push Notifications
- millisecond 11y agoI'm one of the founders of Roost (YCS14 - goroost.com). We're based on this standard and have been (a small) part of getting it out. Happy to answer any questions on the base tech or our layer on top of it.
- feld 11y agoWhat has been done to ensure this can't be used to deliver malware, ads, spam, popups, etc? edit: more than "you have to opt-in" because we know people don't willfully install malware on their computers; the malware writers trick people into clicking on it or installing it
- millisecond 11y agoThere are several safe-guards, with more to come. The biggest one that's coming is being able to unsubscribe directly from the notification pop-up itself. This will shut down abusers very quickly. Beyond that: -All notifications traverse GCM. Which means you've signed a ToS with Google and they can shut you down (also a little scary). -Opt-in must happen on the main page, or have the main pages "consent". This prevents iframed ads registering people, for example. -9/10 pushes must display a user visible element (that will have the unsub feature) which prevents people from being malicious on the background Service Worker thread. More will come as this feature develops and it's seen how things play out in the wild.
- feld 11y agoThis is comforting. Thanks for the detail.
- nailer 11y agoDoes the OS still recieve the notifications if the last Chrome window is closed?
- realityking 11y agoAndroid yes; Others no
- admiun 11y agoChrome on Windows automatically leaves a process running even when you close the last window. I remember because I had to manually disable it some time ago.