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Re:Firefox desktop market share now below 9% by Reason077 on Monday December 03, 2018 @09:19PM (#18595435)
The worst thing about Safari is the “Do you want to receive notifications from this website?” pop-up that appears every time you hit some random notification-supporting website for the first time.

There has got to be a better way to implement notification subscriptions than this annoying pop-up.

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Re:Firefox desktop market share now below 9% by atombender on Monday December 03, 2018 @09:24PM (#18595467)
You can turn this off. Go to Preferences, then Websites, then Notifications, then at the bottom of the window there's a checkbox: "Allow websites to ask for permission to send push notifications".
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Re:Firefox desktop market share now below 9% by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @09:48AM (#18599822)
I have this turned off and yet somehow websites still ask for push notifications. I legitimately don't understand what's happening there.
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Re:Firefox desktop market share now below 9% by ianai on Monday December 03, 2018 @09:25PM (#18595477)
Website push notifications shouldn’t be a thing. Way too ripe for exploitation.
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Re:Firefox desktop market share now below 9% by Reason077 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @05:38AM (#18598163)
I actually find notifications very useful and definitely don’t want to turn them off.

But the way the subscription mechanism is implemented with a pop up is annoying and archaic.

There must be a better way to let users know that notifications are enabled than sticking a pop-up in their face.

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Re:Firefox desktop market share now below 9% by saagarjha on Monday December 03, 2018 @09:36PM (#18595573)
It's nice for webapps, though.
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Re:Firefox desktop market share now below 9% by jiveturkey on Monday December 03, 2018 @10:11PM (#18595779)
chrome and FF also do this. all 3 have an option to disable the prompt (and not accept notifications).
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