Comment by intrasight | Hacker News Reader

Comment by intrasight | Hacker News Reader

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I will rephrase as:

  "Consider disabling push notifications on your device and on family and friends devices"

because browser vs native should make no difference, right? But when said that way, you see how absurd is the statement as a generate guide. This would be a full-time job to a) convince people not to get notifications and b) change their settings.

Now personally, I have disabled all native push notifications or at best have them sent to the "Notification Center". And after seeing my GF bothered by so many notifications, I showed her how to disable them. Everyone else is on their own.

You have the ability to disable just browser push notifications, at least for Android. I actually find notifications useful, but they can quickly become useless if you are receiving a lot of irrelevant notifications. If you disable all notifications on Android, you wont get things like calendar reminders.

Although it can be useful for some web applications, I kind of wish that push notifications were not added to browsers. Most often they are just abused to spam users. The pop-up you get while going to pages asking you to allow push notifications is also annoying. I have started to disable notifications in all the browsers I use on mobile and desktop.

Web and native apps have to ask. But we visit thousands of web sites vs use a dozen apps - so there are going to be many more irrelevant requests.

Here's a question. Can you disable web sites asking while keeping the notifications that you have already allowed?

I haven't looked enough to know if this is possible. In general I found that any browser push notifications I may receive have been better served from a dedicated application.

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