To turn it off in Firefox' about:config, switch both to False:

   dom.webnotifications.serviceworker.enabled
   dom.webnotifications.enabled

Thank you for that, I keep getting annoyed by that and keep forgetting to look up how to disable that. I finally just disabled it.

> That's what RSS is for, no?

> Perfect for the end user

Really? Do you genuinely believe that RSS Readers are widely used? Do you really think that the average non-technical user can and/or is willing to use RSS software, let alone configure a proxy? Do you even think they care?

Personal opinion: I love RSS feeds, but to think that it is somehow superior to notifications for the average user is silly.

Why would you need to configure a proxy? When I used to read more blogs, I would just click the RSS feed icon in the URL bar, then it would generate a little bookmark folder thing in Firefox and blog entries would show up there. Seemed pretty simple at the time...

Notifications can do a lot more than just tell you when new content was posted. Think of, well, just about anything that an app notification does. New message, new e-mail, etc etc

No! I hate the idea of each individual app being able to instantly notify me of new content! I want all of my notifications in one indistinguishable place, outside the context of it's source! It's the perfect interface! /s