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Re:Firefox Can Now Get Push Notifications from Your Favorite... by gdeglin on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @07:36PM (#10977406)
Yep, I find them to be really useful from Facebook and I can't wait until Slack implements them.

One of the nice features of Web Push notifications is that they each have an unsubscribe button on the notification itself. So once you don't want to get them from a website anymore, the block button is immediately available.

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Re:Firefox Can Now Get Push Notifications from Your Favorite... by artifaxx on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @10:15PM (#10977963)
Your response surprises me, I subscribed to the notifications for less than a day before I unsubscribed. If you don't mind me asking, how many a day do you get and why do you like getting the notifications?
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Re:Firefox Can Now Get Push Notifications from Your Favorite... by gdeglin on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @11:08PM (#10978141)
Overall I get about 3 to 4 notifications from Facebook per day, so the quantity isn't too high. It also helps me avoid the habit of frequently loading Facebook to check for new notifications when there usually aren't any.
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Re:Firefox Can Now Get Push Notifications from Your Favorite... by artifaxx on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @05:20AM (#10979281)
Thanks for the perspective, checking for notifications could be even more of a distraction in some cases!
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Re:Firefox Can Now Get Push Notifications from Your Favorite... by nevi-me on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @05:36AM (#10979329)
I have a few users on https://movinggauteng.co.za using web notifications for transit updates. I'm intentionally not sending many for now, because I'm still working on a way for commuters to choose when to get updates.
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Re:Firefox Can Now Get Push Notifications from Your Favorite... by artifaxx on Thursday January 28, 2016 @12:47AM (#10986544)
This seems like a great use of notifications unlike so many apps where they exist mainly to promote compulsively habitual usage.
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Re:Firefox Can Now Get Push Notifications from Your Favorite... by Klathmon on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @09:15PM (#10977779)
Slack already does them for me on desktop chrome.
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