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OT: What's with sites wanting to show me notifications? Why on earth would I allow this?

If you have a website as a desktop daemon (like a calendar app), it's handy. But mainly it's a way to put more ads in your line of sight.

chrome://settings/content/notifications?search=notifications

Because you love the smithsonian so much you're interested in letting them run a web worker and send you push notificaitons forever