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by dylan-m 1660 days ago
It's a completely avoidable UI problem, too. There are two kinds of notifications:

- Notifications while I am actively using a thing - for example, "your upload is finished," or "."

- Push notifications from some website I looked at once and accidentally allowed notifications.

Browsers keep treating these as if they're the same thing. Firefox doesn't make any effort to separate them - you get the same "allow notifications" banner whether it's for push notifications or the plain old notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notificatio... / https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1192458).

But they're obviously different. I don't want to disallow notifications for every website I interact with, but if you aren't telling me what kind of notifications these are, I don't really have much to work with here.

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Assume you don't want them, unless your usecase requires them?