[7734128]

"www.punkt.ch wants to send you notifications"

Why do websites still do this? It's an immediate red flag that the underlying company have no respect for their customers.

[vbezhenar]

The first thing I do when setting up new Chrome instance, is disabling almost every API in its settings, including Notifications API. You can always enable it later for a few selected websites (I'm using it for Telegram Web), and rest of the websites will just silently rejected.

[rationalist]

I would bet money that 99+% of the population never goes into their web browser's settings. Unfortunately I don't know of any way to prove or disprove that.

[IshKebab]

I've done this for passkeys.

[BizarroLand]

You could also stop using chrome and switch to waterfox or some other mozilla derivative.

If you have a site that "requires" chrome, you can easily add a user-agent switcher extension to fool whatever JS nonsense that claims to require chrome.

[sallveburrpi]

It’s kind of a given that the average HN reader won’t have any problems with this (like who is opening a browser without ublock origin on it?) - but like 90% of the population are powerless against this literal cyber bullying; it’s really sad

[margalabargala]

It's so they can notify their customers about their upcoming payments for the subscription to continue using the OS on the phone they bought.