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Comment by Igelau | Hacker News Reader

So that's one good use case for Push Notifications. It would take about 10 minutes of browsing to find 10 bad ones.

I would strongly advocate for browsers to strengthen the UI prompt for notifications so pages can’t do it on load. In fact, Google is doing exactly that with Chrome and I think Firefox already has.

So, no, v1 wasn’t great. But we can improve on things.

I never liked the idea until I started using a browser based pomodoro timer and I enabled the desktop notifications, it's been a useful feature. Now, I'm wondering if there are other benefits I've been missing out on since I have always disabled desktop notifications by default.

I find the browser notifications useful for discourse forums. There are some stuffs that I would like to be notified but not by email.

Implementing notifications for a timer clock should be included in the wikipedia article about feature creep.

Not minding them too much since I disable them, but at some point it is just not worth it for all the anti-user practices notifications already allowed in my opinion. It just inflates functionality.

In 20 years, if we have even more powerful devices, we will complain about browsers taking ages to load again.

Is it not standard practice for browsers to prompt about push notifications? When I see the prompt I choose no, and don't ever see notifications.

I don't really see the issue, as long as there's a security popup when a website requests notification permissions, and a way to just block everything except for a whitelist.

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