It's because people assume that these things are benevolent because they were made by people. Gen X on down are natural skeptics so we don't end up with as much garbage on our phones, it's still possible to accidentally click a pop up when you were getting ready to hit a link.

> possible to accidentally click a pop up when you were getting ready to hit a link.

I personally believe that some sites are designed to shift just a bit to cause this. Like they've used analytics to know how quickly people push the link and now they've designed a slow loading image to shift the page at that point.

And yet every time mobile Safari comes up people on this site go off about how it's "broken" because it does not support notifications from websites. There are legit uses of website notifications, but 99% will be spam like this.

99% of spam... like my email

They're coming. In 2023, according to the Safari section on this[1] page.

1: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/features/

> There are legit uses of website notifications

I have yet to see one

Meanwhile FF allows one to just disable those requests altogether for all sites until further notice.