Comment by amluto
6 years ago
> The problem with asking permission is dialog fatigue and similar.
That’s why I suggested config option and permission. There’s no dialog fatigue if you never see the dialog.
That being said, there really ought to be a little menu of permissions that can be granted to a website such that the website cannot make it blink, flash, or otherwise draw attention to it. Crud like “allow push notifications” could go there. Granting push notification permission to a site is fine, but I don’t think sites should be able to ask for push notification permission.
In my experience if you tell users "to use this awesome thing, you need to enable this option", a reasonable portion will do it.
It sounds like what you're saying is that there should be a dialog, but only if you've already enabled a setting, which raises the question of "if this feature is so bad you don't want it exposed, why would you have it available at all?".