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Re:Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center by gtsteve on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @05:04PM (#21328497)
I had hoped that the notification API would just silently not send a notification if the user had explicitly denied this. Unfortunately that's not the case: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notificatio...

It's a shame the designers of this feature didn't think of the abuse potential.

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Re:Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center by simcop2387 on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @05:10PM (#21328537)
I'd like to have that option, but i can understand why they did it this way. If you just hide the notification then the site can still use them to get around other restrictions like how much time the javascript is allowed to run in the background and things like that.
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