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Does chrome put in anything to protect against developers spamming notification center? I can just imagine putting a couple hundred of these throughout time squ

Does chrome put in anything to protect against developers spamming notification center? I can just imagine putting a couple hundred of these throughout time square and making everyone really hate chrome for ios.

nevi-me 11y ago
On Android it does, and assuming that it uses the Push Notification API via WebServiceWorker, the user should be able to globally turn the notifications off (as they wouldn't be device-specific).
- dogma1138 11y ago
  Notifications are application specific, so that would prevent Chrome from prompting notifications completely, not a solution... A better solution is to turn BT off :)
- heypiotr 11y ago
  We're yet to see how Google implements this on Android. Currently it's iOS only, and the "Today" Chrome widget only, no push notifications at all. Also, see the above comment from jimiasty about Google ranking/filtering the URLs before it shows them in the widget.
quest88 11y ago
Beacon's won't be able to spam notifications. That's why they're only broadcasting URLs. If you have the app installed (I can't remember what it is) you'll be able to open it to view nearby beacons. The user has to initiate the search for beacons.
aflinik 11y ago
Think of it as of seeing URL printed on the wall (or hidden in QR-code), just easier to use if you actually want to. It's not spamming notification center. Whenever the beacon signal is heard the information about it is shown in Chrome widget, but you still have to manually go there to see it. If you ignore it and move away from the beacon it will simply disappear.
jimiasty 11y ago
Jakub here, founder of Estimote. @tashoecraft: Google did here a really elegant design. URLs from beacons are not rendered in the browser directly (it's not the device that resolves URL or fetches description). There is a Google service based on Google Search doing that and then data are rendered in the browser. We expect this is how Google is actually planning to prevent spam. Before they present anything in the browser for the user, they might filter that and/or rank, same way they do it with links in the search.

nevi-me 11y ago

On Android it does, and assuming that it uses the Push Notification API via WebServiceWorker, the user should be able to globally turn the notifications off (as they wouldn't be device-specific).

dogma1138 11y ago
Notifications are application specific, so that would prevent Chrome from prompting notifications completely, not a solution... A better solution is to turn BT off :)
heypiotr 11y ago
We're yet to see how Google implements this on Android. Currently it's iOS only, and the "Today" Chrome widget only, no push notifications at all. Also, see the above comment from jimiasty about Google ranking/filtering the URLs before it shows them in the widget.

quest88 11y ago

Beacon's won't be able to spam notifications. That's why they're only broadcasting URLs. If you have the app installed (I can't remember what it is) you'll be able to open it to view nearby beacons. The user has to initiate the search for beacons.

aflinik 11y ago

Think of it as of seeing URL printed on the wall (or hidden in QR-code), just easier to use if you actually want to. It's not spamming notification center. Whenever the beacon signal is heard the information about it is shown in Chrome widget, but you still have to manually go there to see it. If you ignore it and move away from the beacon it will simply disappear.

jimiasty 11y ago

Jakub here, founder of Estimote. @tashoecraft: Google did here a really elegant design. URLs from beacons are not rendered in the browser directly (it's not the device that resolves URL or fetches description). There is a Google service based on Google Search doing that and then data are rendered in the browser. We expect this is how Google is actually planning to prevent spam. Before they present anything in the browser for the user, they might filter that and/or rank, same way they do it with links in the search.