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Is there any good that can come from a dipshit mobile product manager being able to make your phone vibrate on an app? Is there actually a meaningful difference?

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Games are the usual reason in an app. Being able to do it as a “drive by” on a website though: absolutely hell no.

Sounds like it would be ideal to add it to Home Screen webapps only, just like web notifications. And yet…

Yes, because visiting a website is much easier to do even unintentionally. The last thing I want is my phone to vibrate as I scroll past an ad

Which is why things like permission prompts exist.

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