Tons of sites do that, because everyone who designs websites is a moron.

He doesn't like Zuckerberg's glasses, but he likes using his same dirty tactics!

Blog owner here. The notification prompt uses standard browser support for this. I know many people don’t like, but there are some that appreciate getting updates this way.

FYI, every major browser has a global switch to disable notification prompts like my blog did. It works as expected.

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