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joneil | 6 years ago

Browser vendors are finally catching on.

From Firefox 72 permission prompts won’t be shown unless they’re triggered from a user interaction.

From the blog post:

> Notification prompts are very unpopular. On Release, about 99% of notification prompts go unaccepted, with 48% being actively denied by the user.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/11/04/restricti...

I’ve heard Chrome is moving in a similar direction

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ignoramous|6 years ago

When I soft-launched MVP I built to 50 odd users, I was surprised that one user said they uninstalled the app after a couple of days because they simply didn't like the app throwing nagging notifications (it seemed to me, given the nature of the app, the notifications were essential information, but apparently not). Android does let you turn off the notifications per channel per app, but I guess most users aren't aware, surprisingly, even the ones who are annoyed by notifications.

hqrlk|6 years ago

So instead of getting a permission prompt on load, I will get it when I first click on something. No thanks.

royal_ts|6 years ago

No. It should be done the way like Slack does it: - You want to get Notifications for Messages? Click here

So that you actually know what it's used for

lucasverra|6 years ago

Not if you close Tab before clicking :)