The notification nag modal has been a scourge since it was introduced. They admit as much here:
> Abusive notification prompts are one of the top user complaints we receive about Chrome.
These always should have been opt in or user-initiated only, never should have been allowable as a modal prompt when landing on a page.
It's weird - cookie popups (I can browse incognito or clear cookies or use an extension to control my own cookies) and the notification popup I found similarly annoying.
Just let me browse and control my browsing on my own terms. In the website text it can ask that I go into a notifications whitelist panel and add a url that can send notifications, or click on an element that triggers the pop-up etc.
Similarly, we keep on hearing these headlines about someone not having the right cookie popups or enough of them etc. I wish those would go away as well. The place to control cookies is with the user. I'm not sure disabling cookies even hides my activities from a site (obviously it doesn't).
I don't see why it can't be the same here.
The popup window situation has gotten so bad that even websites that legitimately want popups have stopped using them, because it's such a PITA to get them to reliably open.