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By your logic they should just remove push notifications completely from iOS because it uses power. Wouldn't that be bad?

Web push is better than native app push when it comes to power consumption as web push is stricter on what you can do.

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If an app on the app store abuses push notifications though, they can get kicked. Apple can’t kick a website off the web.

Technically they could blacklist certain behaviors from certain sites. They and all other major browsers already do this in a privacy-preserving way for Safe Browsing, certificate revocation, etc.

Blacklisting is a losing game, especially from the malicious sites most likely to abuse this. Notice how those malware and fake Chrome extension ads have a new URL every day.

Sure they can, Apple would still have full control over push functionality. Web or native doesn't matter.

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