Who thought webpages giving you notifications was a good idea?
They just tend to be stupidly implemented. If I'm a first-time visitor to your news site, and I haven't even read the article yet, there's about a 0.00% chance I'll allow notifications. Why they don't set a cookie and prompt only once you're a repeat visitor for a while is beyond me.
Most of them don't care.
Browsers ought to require a user action to trigger a notification request. I vaguely that being the case before, not sure where things changed.