FYI, you can disable the ability for Chromium-based browsers to even ask the user if they want to allow notifications - on my Android phone in Chrome, it's under Settings, Site settings. There you can set "Notifications" to "Blocked" (and if you're paranoid like me, turn most others off as well).
However, nagging the shit out of users should not be the default behavior. They knew that this feature would get abused by every sleazy webmaster on the planet as soon as it was supported in popular browsers. The feature should have been properly designed in the first place. Now I'm content with letting it die.
I appreciate Apple's willingness to more or less ignore open standards that hurt the user experience more than they benefit it.
Absolutely fair, but that's why I set that on all browsers I configure for family, and recently had to walk my sister through on her phone when she accidentally allowed notifications from some website that started spamming her with various scam attempts.
I don’t know if they’ll accept this solution.
The other camp just want: “It works automatically like magic”.
I just want to point out that we have to be familiar with the tools we used.
As I understand it (I never want notifications so don't have any experience with it), it's only blocking new sites from asking to send notifications. So if you find a site you want notifications from, you can change that back to "Ask" temporarily, allow for that site, and then change back to "Block" for all sites by default.
Note that that behavior might be different on mobile vs. desktop browsers, but again, I don't really know how to test, sorry.
