Comment by jimktrains2
9 years ago
Im comfortable with the current system where websites request permission for notifications, but they are as useful as phone notifications. Message in a webchat, new email, new private notification on Twitter, &c.
It should always be opt in, but it is a useful thing for many use cases.
Can't reply to FussyZeus, but in Firefox, you can permanently disable notifications for all websites (though it is not exposed in the UI).
Go to about:config, search for dom.webnotifications.enabled, set it to false.
Thank you, and thank you, Mozilla.
I'm comfortable with it, just wish the browsers would give me the option to just say no, forever, to all websites.
I think safari (desktop) does. It has a checkbox labelled "Allow websites to ask for permission to send notifications" in the Notifications settings.