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I used to for a local news site, but they disabled them to encourage people to install their app instead 🙄
Overall, the feature is overused and too easily tricks users into enabling notifications for sites they only visited because of a web search result.
Notifications are useful for periodic, high quality information that is meaningful to the user.
I mean, sure. Discord, mattermost, slack - they all ask for and get notifications. Ditto my email.
Why wouldn't I want that?
Some folks (myself included) find notifications to be really distracting. One pops up and whatever was in my head is now gone, whatever it was. Entirely focus-breaking.
I can relate; I have no problem with visual notifications. Barely registers as a blip.
But a sound notification? It's like watching a 300mph crash test into a solid concrete wall. So I can totally sympathize, which is why it's nice that it asks you if you want it on or not vs. being on by default.
I'm fucking looking at you, Discord.
Oh, that's funny, I'm the total opposite! I don't mind a bling now and then, but pop-up notifications throw me for a loop :)
(Fuckin Discord.)
It's the same with telephone calls, you may as well just set my desk on fire and achieve the same result!
Basically this. Honestly don't recall a site ever abusing it, but I only do it when there is a need and with reputable sites.
Out of principle websites never get push permission from me. If it is a communication app it will give me a phone push, and I can switch to that tab when I see that in my peripheral. One less thing to mute when I want no distractions.
Hell no. I have notifications completely disabled for my entire PC, and my phone is always set to DnD.
I've got it enabled on Board Game Arena so that I'll get a notification when it's my turn in a game.
Very rarely. I only would do it for a communication app (Discord, Element), social media (Mastodon) or recently, Beehaw!
I have rarely in the past for some browser games. But honestly like someone else mentioned, it gets used to serve ads or they notify you about EVERYTHING and then it loses value.
The number that displays in the tab is enough for me, I also disable the notifications from my OS because I find it really annoying. It took me a bit of experimenting to figure out how to get the red dot on teams without the annoying banner popping up on my screen.
I really wish apps had an option to notify you of a new message, and then not ping you for corresponding messages in the same channel until I check it
I think I've used it before when I was using the web version of the telegram app for a while because touch options on linux desktop were a mess. Still are honestly but things have improved a lot.
Sure, notifications are great as long as they only appear for apps where I want them. Mastodon Direct Messages for example.
My default policy is deny though - I don't let pages ask for permission.
I only enable it for sites where I need to immediately know about something. Currently that list is email, calendar, messages for web, and fediverse stuff. And the latter has notifications restricted to only replies and DMs.
The only site I allow is Slack.
Absolutely not. I’ve set it so that all sites are denied automatically, so I never even get asked anymore. I can’t imagine why I would ever want that, but I’m very selective with notifications altogether.
I use it at work for websites we use for work. Never for other things.
I tried it a few times on some websites but in the end I got so annoyed by it i had to disable it again.
I turn off notifications anywhere I'm able to. They break my focus and I don't get any benefit from them (they're like flies buzzing my face while I try to read; they stop me from what I was doing, but they don't bring anything but annoyance to the table).