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web pages aren't something users want notifications from.

Mozilla literally studied this and essentially 100% of "let us spam you" requests were denied.

Because essentially 100% of web pages that request push notification access are garbage tabloids that nobody cares about. No push notifications on mobile Safari means that there is no incentive to build mobile web apps that function similar to their native counterparts. Obviously people are accepting push notifications somewhere or else they wouldn't be such a popular design decision.

People could also build cool websites if your computer gave all sites kernel access into your computer. Doesn’t make it a good idea

> web pages aren't something users want notifications from.

I agree users don't want notifications from web pages, but the web is much more then just web pages and I would argue that on web applications users are much more likely to allow push notifications if they get a clear benefit.

Every other platform supports these notifications and yet somehow 99% of the sites that do it are using it for spam.

Every non-web platform has an initial gate of "install application X".

The web does not have that gate. The web has "I went to the apps website to see if it did what I wanted. it did/didn't, and then asks to send me update notifications"

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