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Web notification prompts
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2022–2025), in 5 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Permission prompts on page load pester users into rejectingUnreviewed
20222026- Users keep getting permission prompts with no option to stop them, so they click allow and lose control2025-06-17
- Permission prompt appears before the site shows any content, so the user can't tell what it's for2025-01-08
- Permission prompt appears on page load without a user click, so users get pestered and reject it2023-03-28
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 5 complaints
- Users keep getting permission prompts with no option to stop them, so they click allow and lose control2025-06-17
- People are tricked into accepting notification pop-ups by pressing buttons quickly to dismiss them2025-04-04
- Permission prompt appears before the site shows any content, so the user can't tell what it's for2025-01-08
- Permission prompt appears on page load without a user click, so users get pestered and reject it2023-03-28
- Websites repeatedly nag users with unwanted permission requests for notifications2022-01-24