A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team

Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by hbn on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:41AM (#36985774)

It could also be argued that right now Google's domination of the web allows them to throw their weight around and introduce bad "standards" just so everything can be moved to the web, which again, they basically own.

For example the "standard" implementation of web push is straight up bad. I don't think websites should be able to throw popups asking users with enable notifications, because users are so used to accepting TOS agreements and cookie prompts that they just click "ok" and "accept" on everything, and now your grandma has gambling app ads in her notifications because she accepted notifications from some sketchy site she was linked to on Facebook.

Apple made the right move by requiring you to add a website to your home screen before it's allowed to send you push notifications.

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by nurple on Thursday August 03, 2023 @11:32PM (#36995180)

I love how sites are now taking the mobile strategy of checking first and then showing a sugary popup explaining that they’re about to pop the native prompt for perms, and why. It brings me joy to click affirmative on those so I can permablock by clicking no on the native prompt.

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by lesuorac on Friday August 04, 2023 @09:03AM (#36999387)

I thought the "Click Yes to notifications to prove you're not a computer" was one of the more amusing traps.

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Re:A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team by luckman212 on Saturday August 05, 2023 @08:29AM (#37011361)

Oh my, that's pure evil.

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