• besselj@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    You guys actually allow websites to send you notifications? Pretty much every site that has asked me to allow notifications is one that I wouldn’t want notifications from.

    • mel ♀@jlai.lu
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      4 hours ago

      Company’s gitlab to have notifications pipeline (that I usually monitor when I push)

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      6 hours ago

      Yeah, I am an IT guy and at our office there have been two users in the last year who has somehow enabled notifications from what is clearly a spam site which keeps spamming notifications as if it were McAffee Anti-Virus.

      I need to get a policy pushed out to disable any requests for new notifications from websites…

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      5 hours ago

      I use it for my self hosted apps, but yeah, it’s rarely useful for websites in the wild.

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    6 hours ago

    Notifications in Chrome are a useful feature to keep up with updates from your favorite sites.

    No, they most definitely are not. This is something I’ve never wanted or used, and almost certainly never will.

    Why does this feature even exist?

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      It’s sometimes useful for messengers, tho. I mean, many of those are electron apps anyway, and those that are not are unlikely to have a sandbox as good as what browsers have.

      Although, I agree: my default action for notifications is always reject, and then I can manually approve what I think I need.

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        5 hours ago

        Apps are the only way I can see it being useful. RSS readers, mail clients, chat clients etc.

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    6 hours ago

    Ok, so how can I, as web developer, monitor if my notifications are rejected by this?

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      5 hours ago

      Anti-abuse measures such as this are generally designed to not provide that kind of feedback. The website developer is modeled to be an adversary, and you don’t volunteer valuable information on what has worked against your countermeasures, and what hasn’t, to your designated enemy.