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by Ashanmaril 2101 days ago
Web notifications are one of the worst things to happen to the modern web. Ever look at your grandma's Samsung phone? She's probably got 5 spam ads saying you won a contest or to claim some offer. Most users are conditioned to just accept whatever popups are shoved in their faces, ESPECIALLY since the EU laws a few years ago that forced every website to tell about their cookies policy. And hell, I've accidentally accepted push notifications from sites throwing a popup in front of me while I was trying to click something else or scroll.

Apple was completely right to not allow web push notifications on iOS. They're 99% abuse. I don't even like them on desktop either.
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wayneftw 2101 days ago
We're talking about PWA notifications, not pure web notifications.

The P in PWA comes from the word progressive. So, we don't need to enable every native feature immediately for every website.

People who want PWA notifications would be absolutely fine with not being able to send them until the user added the PWA to their home screen and opted into notifications.

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