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Re: Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far

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Post by tobyhinloopen »

phasecode wrote: post #2

Why does it seem like more and more sites are requesting permissions to send notifications...makes it hard to consider this a "trustworthy" site when the first thing you're trying to do is ask for permissions to send notifications.

Yeah I never accept that. Who would?

Re: Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far

#4

Post by reificator »

tobyhinloopen wrote: post #3
phasecode wrote: post #2

Why does it seem like more and more sites are requesting permissions to send notifications...makes it hard to consider this a "trustworthy" site when the first thing you're trying to do is ask for permissions to send notifications.

Yeah I never accept that. Who would?

There are lots of reasons to accept that request.

Visiting the page for the first time and immediately getting a popup is not one of them.

Re: Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far

#5

Post by pvdebbe »

tobyhinloopen wrote: post #3
phasecode wrote: post #2

Why does it seem like more and more sites are requesting permissions to send notifications...makes it hard to consider this a "trustworthy" site when the first thing you're trying to do is ask for permissions to send notifications.

Yeah I never accept that. Who would?

I don't even know what it means for a website to send a notification. Does it mean a flashing tab in firefox?

Re: Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far

#7

Post by scarlac »

pvdebbe wrote: post #5
tobyhinloopen wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I never accept that. Who would?

I don't even know what it means for a website to send a notification. Does it mean a flashing tab in firefox?

Depends on your OS. For Chrome on macOS, it'll show a chrome-styled square box with an icon and a piece of text in the upper right hand corner, kinda like macOS notifications (but they look nothing like it). In general, web notifications (can) work the same way they do on your smart phone. They can arrive from an active tab as well as from a background service.

Safari (on macOS) will use the native macOS notification system to display notifications AFAIR. I have no idea what IE on Windows does.

Re: Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far

#8

Post by pja »

pvdebbe wrote: post #5
tobyhinloopen wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I never accept that. Who would?

I don't even know what it means for a website to send a notification. Does it mean a flashing tab in firefox?

On ChromeOS & on Windows with the Edge browser it integrates with the OS notification system. Not sure what Firefox does.
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