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>In Safari websites have to ask permission before it can send you notifications. They can't just 'spam' you.

Since people visit tens of new websites everyday, asking permission once is also close to spamming -- it's a non solicited popup for something most don't care and don't want.

And don't get me started with the BS "This site uses cookies, OK/Not OK" we get in Europe...

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>> "Since people visit tens of new websites everyday"

Source? From my experience people tend to visit the same few sites everyday. Personally I've seen that permission notification about 4 or 5 times in the several years it's been a feature.

>From my experience people tend to visit the same few sites everyday.

It's a power distribution. They visit their few sites everyday, but they also visit a long tail of sites for different things.

Except if we're talking about Aunt May/Uncle Paul, who only go from their Outlook Mail to Facebook.

> You can also completely disable them so you're never asked for permission

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