I think apart from Gitter I’ve never wanted a notification, as a user.
Now do you see why "the average user" isn't useful to determine how to build something? Even if most people suck at using email, in my app it works well.
This experience is geographically or demographically unique.
Do you find that most users do authentication via phone number instead of email?
Please be kind and not sneer as the guidelines suggest.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You could easily reword you comment to.
> In my experience the average user barely uses email.
Unless you know parent commenter personally I don't think you're competent enough to judge their experience in an online discussion.
Push notifications are subject to the same HIPPA rules as sms. You can’t included sensitive info.
Spammy notification requests should be mitigated with better browser guards for requesting them. The fact that there is spam does not somehow invalidate that there are legitimate use cases people want them for.
This includes what vaccine I received, the lot number of its production, plus information from v-safe[1] and reminders to check in telling the government how I feel on days after the vaccine.
I use them for some local forums to notify me of replies. Don't want to fill up my inbox for this.
Mobile is already bad enough where if you swipe a notification away, well I hope you remembered the icon and the bit of context that was on that notification. Browser notifications just make this worse.
And then there's the whole "will I get a notification if the browser app is closed? What if I get a notification in the middle of the night, will I receive it in the morning? Will it continue to receive notifications if I restart my phone?" kind of questions. Maybe it all just works but I am very untrusting of the whole feature.