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There are plenty of legitimate use cases - calendar apps, issue trackers, online games, news sites.

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.

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It's not great when the notification box is styled like native UI to make it seem more legitimate, although it is nice that the page doesn't just flat out request notification permissions.

> 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.

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