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0 pointsmarcosdumay6y ago0 comments

I don't understand why browsers would ever not lie about this.

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twic6y ago

A non-malicious website could activate some alternative UI for giving you news if you disable notifications.

Maybe because of the privacy implications of web workers keeping connections/checking for new notifications in the background?

rtpg6y ago

"Why are my notifications for Slack not working?"

"Because you've declined to get notifications for Slack"

This does not seem like a reasonable complaint to me.

But the application would have no way of knowing that to display this message to the user if the browser lies about it.

It may require bandwidth and CPU to check for notifications.

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