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Comment by legodt | Hacker News Reader

Hey, uh, why the fuck does this website want to send me notifications? That really makes me want to bounce from a page ASAP, especially one that is just serving up an article on the surface.

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Hmm, I didn't notice that but I just checked and it looks like I already have notifications blocked.

Sorry I submitted such a site. I agree that it is very annoying.

Well I'm mostly curious at this point. The content itself was deeply researched and informative, nothing else seemed fishy on the page.

What reasons would a webdev want to enable such a feature on a site like this? And no, I'm not giving a random page permission so I can find out!

This is just a guess on my part since I always deny these permission requests but I would think maybe accepting the request would allow the website to notify a reader when new articles are posted? Maybe it's something like notifications on an app only this is done via the browser?

I feel like I started seeing these requests more frequently about 12-18 months ago. I agree it's very off putting.

That's around when windows started supporting it. I love the feature for sites I frequent.

The only site I allow to send me notifications is dictionary.com because I like getting a word of the day. Other than that, getting an alert from blogs every time a new article is posted gets old really fast.

To get you to comeback to the site. To demand a higher amount when negotiating with watch companies.

Disable JS. Makes the web way better.

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