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Push notification prompts
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2012–2021), in 6 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Websites ask for push permission immediately without easing users inUnreviewed
20122026- Sites show unwanted notification pop-ups, and misclicks force a tedious process to undo them2021-09-28
- Every site asks for notification permission, which is annoying and hard to refuse or undo2021-05-23
- Unwanted push notification pop-ups appear on every new site visited2021-05-02
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Sites show unwanted notification pop-ups, and misclicks force a tedious process to undo them2021-09-28
- Every site asks for notification permission, which is annoying and hard to refuse or undo2021-05-23
- Unwanted push notification pop-ups appear on every new site visited2021-05-02
- Misclicking the permission pop-up makes removing the notification permission annoying and tedious2021-05-02
- Websites throw push notification permission prompts at users without easing them in2020-03-20
- Permission prompts pop up automatically without the user asking for them2020-01-09
- People blindly tap OK on prompts, then must manually turn notifications off later2012-11-12