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by darkstar999 3017 days ago
Yes! That is really being abused. I don't need notifications from recipe sites!
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I’ve yet to find a site from which I do want to receive notifications.
I like calendar notifications, reminding me it's time to go do something
chat apps like discord and slack, mostly
Even discord and slack I don't want browser notifications. Inside their own tab, I can deal with ui elements. There's no need nor no want to have a page alert outside of the web page itself.
It can be useful when you get mentioned, like for example, a user has pinged the moderator role where a quick reaction will be necessary. Desktop notifications can significantly reduce reaction time to important events (though, assuming you do the sane and set Discord to only notify you on mentions that aren't @here or @everyone)
If they need an immediate answer, they are not children and know how to use a phone (I would hope).
I'd imagine the majority of discord users don't share their phone numbers with the channel.
Study websites reminding me that it is time for my next study session are great for establishing the habit of doing my studies.

When I was single I would have had time for 3 of them - total in my life. I think systems should automatically block all requests for notifications if you already have 3 since it is not possible for more than that to be useful. (the exact number is debatable, but 3 is close). Note that I said systems - I want firefox, chrome, ie, safari to work together across all the computers I have to keep the number down - for security reasons I understand they cannot but that would be ideal.

Web sites like gmail.com.
Indeed, once upon a time folks used RSS.

But we are in an age where any random website wants to send you realtime push notifications.

Instead of pestering you with an overlay that takes up screen real estate, the browser should indicate what subscription options are available for a page, e.g. in the address bar next to the page info icons.