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Re: What exactly do you click when you're confronted with "reddit wants to show notifications - allow - block - cancel (and why)?

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"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote

| I do not know exactly how push notifications work, but to work, they
| need a contributing browser. If the browser blocks them, it does not
| matter what the page tries to do, except that the browser has to act. It
| would perhaps warn that it is getting unrequested notifications.
|

In Firefox:

services.push.enabled
dom.webnotifications.enabled

  Those settings showed up with FF 44. (It's currently at
something like v. 80, so I guess that was a couple of
months ago. :)

  There are two ways I'm aware of for this to work. One is
that you load an invisible page that stays open in the
background, so the site can send messages. The other is
that Mozilla maintain a site where companies can post
messages you've allowed, and FF will periodically check
in to see if there's a message waiting.

  Both very creepy options, but as far as I know they
default to being disabled.

   The messages being discussed
sound like requests for push permission. I've never seen
those, but maybe it requires first enabling push. I rarely
enable script, but I do enable it partially for Reddit, which
is the only social media site I use. I've never seen any kind
of popup on Reddit.

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What exactly do you click when you're confronted with "reddit wants to show notifications - allow - block - cancel (and why)?  Arlen   Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2020-11-13 16:16 +0000
  Re: What exactly do you click when you're confronted with "reddit wants to show notifications - allow - block - cancel (and why)? Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2020-11-13 11:33 -0600
    Re: What exactly do you click when you're confronted with "reddit wants to show notifications - allow - block - cancel (and why)?  Arlen   Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2020-11-13 19:03 +0000
      Malicious buttons; was Re: What exactly do you click <snip> Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2020-11-14 10:15 -0800
      Re: What exactly do you click when you're confronted with "reddit wants to show notifications - allow - block - cancel (and why)? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2020-11-14 19:49 +0100
        Re: What exactly do you click when you're confronted with "reddit wants to show notifications - allow - block - cancel (and why)?  Arlen   Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2020-11-14 19:13 +0000
        Re: What exactly do you click when you're confronted with "reddit wants to show notifications - allow - block - cancel (and why)? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2020-11-14 14:35 -0500
        Re: What exactly do you click when you're confronted with "reddit wants to show notifications - allow - block - cancel (and why)? "Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid> - 2020-11-15 10:48 +0300
          Re: What exactly do you click when you're confronted with "reddit wants to show notifications - allow - block - cancel (and why)?  Arlen   Holder <arlen_holder@newmachines.com> - 2020-11-20 00:04 +0000

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