You guys actually allow websites to send you notifications? Pretty much every site that has asked me to allow notifications is one that I wouldn’t want notifications from.
Company’s gitlab to have notifications pipeline (that I usually monitor when I push)
I use it for my self hosted apps, but yeah, it’s rarely useful for websites in the wild.
Gmail, outlook web, whatsapp web, slack web … just some examples of webapps that I use or used in the past that someone might legitimately want notifications from. Maybe you don’t use them, or are not required to use them for work, and that’s fine.
The article is specifically talking about android though, and there you’d most likely use an app for those, so I personally never needed them on mobile, but I can see someone else might need them.
nobody wants machine learning ai nonsense in a browser
No, I actually want that. There are use cases where it can really improve things - best example is the local translation feature in Firefox. Would you really rather have no translations, or ones that go through a server?
This also seems like a useful feature.
Unwanted notifications? I’ll give you unwanted notifications:
I love this
I hate it too but I love it.
I firmly believe the day Randal dies will be the day many of us stop using the internet.
Why use ai for this? Just block notifications by default and manually allow the sites you want.
Ok, so how can I, as web developer, monitor if my notifications are rejected by this?
Anti-abuse measures such as this are generally designed to not provide that kind of feedback. The website developer is modeled to be an adversary, and you don’t volunteer valuable information on what has worked against your countermeasures, and what hasn’t, to your designated enemy.
Isn’t it ironic!
