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Permissions on the Web Suck

I was so excited about push notifications on the web that I wrote a whole talk about it in 2015 and was fortunate enough to give it in a bunch of places around the world.

Web applications themselves are getting pushy and now I see tweets like this: And this: And blog posts like How-To Geek's how to stop websites from asking to show notifications.

All it says is "www.sitepoint.com wants to show notifications" and there are two buttons, "Block" or "Allow".

I believe that the intention for the API is to encourage developers to build an intermediary step where the application explains why it wants permission to send push notifications.