Comment by swiftcoder

> As far as I'm concerned the whole 'let this website notify you' feature is an antipattern and yet another example of browser overreach.

It's a symptom of the whole "we converted our document platform into an application platform" debacle that typifies the modern web.

Notifications make no sense for the majority of websites, but if you use, say, a web-based email client, then you probably do want them.