[tdicola]

Because I'm old enough to have seen stupid trends like this come and go. I like to browse the web on my terms and not be bombarded by useless information. I know it's a crazy concept for some young people these days but sometimes people don't want any interruptions or distractions like real time notifications. If anything notifications should be entirely opt in where you explicitly go to a page on a website and turn it on--not spamming every time you visit to ask if you want to turn them on.

[eertami]

Then just fucking disable them jesus nobody gives a shit. All you're doing is complaining. In case your time is too precious to lookup how (because complaining about meaningless shit on the internet is obviously more important) I've written you a nice guide:

- Open Chrome.

- In the upper-right corner of the browser window, click the Chrome menu Chrome menu.

- Click Settings > Show advanced settings.

- In the "Privacy" section, click Content settings.

- In the dialogue that appears, go to "Notifications" and choose the following:

- Do not allow any site to show notifications: You won’t see any notifications from websites.

[fooey]

How does the "explicit page" on a site ask for permission if your idea is that sites shouldn't be able to ask for permission?

If you bury it in the browsers settings it might as well not exist as a feature

[Artemis2]

That's the case for most implementations, just clicking "Block" will forbid the website from asking ever again.

[tdicola]

Why does it have to assume when I vist a site I want the distraction at all? How about we put it in a setting or other page I have to explicitly visit and opt in to receive notifications. Just like signing up for emails, etc...