Comment by spideymans

Part of me wishes that browsers dropped support for web push notifications entirely. Or at least bury it in the browser settings somewhere. At best, they provide marginal value to me, and at worse, they're just spammy.

My parents aren't techsavy at all, so when they get those push notification requests, they just hit "accept". They now get dozens of spammy ads sent to them via push notifications (eg, "30% off sale, buy now!")

I've disabled web push notifications entirely, but I still get JavaScript-based prompts asking me for permission to turn on notifications. I already explicitly said no, yet web developers still feel compelled to find workarounds to interrupt my work and ask me for permissions (why?).

I get that in theory, web notifications are supposed to be valuable, but in practice its been nothing more than a constant annoyance for me.