[anoncake]

> Is it asking too much to put some guard rails in place that really aren’t too much trouble to follow?

No, but that's not what Mozilla is doing. A confirmation prompt is a guardrail. This is a fence.

> Last week my dad thought he had a virus, but really it was just a BS spam site that he had [...] allowed to send him notifications.

That's his own fault. Not an ideal outcome by any means but a private organization has no right to restrict people's freedom just to protect others from themselves.