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by ino 3725 days ago
> 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.