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If the user says no to the real dialog, you can never bring up the real dialog again.

Sites with fake dialogs in my experience ask again the next time you open the page.

It’s the same reason many iPhone apps implement their own dialogues to ask about allowing notifications. If the user chooses ‘Deny’ in the system-provided one, the app can never ask again and the only way to turn notifications on later is to have the user go digging around in the Settings app, which few people will bother to do.

I take great pleasure in choosing ‘Allow’ in those custom dialogues and then ‘Deny’ when the native one pops up immediately afterwards.

I would leave them alone entirely, as you can see from my comment they are actually sometimes attempts to compromise your browser.

Oh absolutely, I was referring only to native phone apps.

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