> That’s how location services and notifications work today, and all it means is that websites just constantly nag me to enable them.
It also means you can tell the browser to outright deny every request, thus avoiding even getting prompted. If a website detects the request was denied and still prompts you any other way, that’s an undeniable signal to close the tab and never return.
Right, I think the fact that these features exist at all means sites are gonna ask for them… even if your browser denies it, the site can easily pop up a dialog saying “hey you should give us notification access!”.
The result is that the web just keeps getting incrementally worse and worse. It’s all good intentions in creating these API’s but the result is that everything just gets more terrible.
It also means you can tell the browser to outright deny every request, thus avoiding even getting prompted. If a website detects the request was denied and still prompts you any other way, that’s an undeniable signal to close the tab and never return.