If people didn't want web notifications, they wouldn't have been explicitly added in to the specs.
This thread is getting ridiculous. I appreciate people don't like notifications but the very few sites that request them are sites like gmail, discord, irccloud etc which the majority of people absolutely do want notifications from.
> If people didn't want web notifications, they wouldn't have been explicitly added in to the specs.
Web standards aren't a democratic process that all the web users vote on. They're defined by a consortium of companies each with their own special interests and agendas. Pop-ups were allowed by web standards and we've gone out of our way to build tools to prevent them.
> If people didn't want web notifications, they wouldn't have been explicitly added in to the specs.
Which people? The developers or the end users? It's a cliché but I can't see my non-techie mom or dad, or cousins, aunts, uncles ever wanting website notifications on their laptop, not even for gmail.
So now everybody gets alerts to accept notifications so those 0.001% techies/devs who want them can use them? they could enable it themselves.
The _very few_ sites include also techcrunch and others. I see people thinking they got a virus because they're getting notifications on their OS by a website they've accepted by mistake.
See https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3220216 for the method.