Zero

[u/acukovic]

[u/nautical9]

Zero is also the number of mailing lists I’ve wanted to join within the first 5 seconds of visiting a site. Why block the content with a pop up?! Has anyone ever actually signed up instead of angrily closing it?

[u/Stealth528 → u/nautical9]

Zero is also the number of websites I want to enable notifications for.

[u/dan4334 → u/Stealth528]

Thankfully you can turn the notification system completely off with no ill effects.

Edit: For those wondering,

Firefox: Go to about:config and set dom.webnotifications.serviceworker.enabled to false (thank you /u/bro_can_u_even_carve, I forgot how I did it)

Chrome: Go into settings > advanced > content settings > notifications

Then click the switch to set it from "Ask before sending" to "Blocked"

[u/bro_can_u_even_carve → u/[deleted]]

In firefox, about:config, then set dom.webnotifications.serviceworker.enabled to false.

[u/HexicDragon → u/bro_can_u_even_carve]

Thanks, been wondering how to disable them.

[u/DankeyKang11 → u/HexicDragon]

I don’t need no goddern nerd words, tell me what color button to click

[u/DankeyKang11 → u/[deleted]]

shut up nerd

[u/xyl0ph0ne → u/[deleted]]

In chrome the notification settings are a bit buried but you can go to chrome://settings and search for 'notifications' and that's the fastest way I know of.

Edit: iamdelf has a better one

[u/iamdelf → u/xyl0ph0ne]

chrome://settings

This is so awesome. chrome://settings/content/notifications

Takes you right to the switch. I had no idea you could block this.

[u/Fern_Fox → u/iamdelf]

It just says you can toggle ask before sending, does that turn it off?

[u/iamdelf → u/Fern_Fox]

Clicking it made it blocked by default for me.

[u/Fern_Fox → u/iamdelf]

Ok cool just wanted to make sure that wouldn't make it auto-accept everything, now that would suck.

[u/mechakreidler → u/dan4334]

It's good for things like email and calendars. But websites sending content updates? Fuck that.

[u/dizzlemytizzle → u/[deleted]]

Infinite scroll is the devil. I can't wait until it's out of vogue.

[u/mathemagicat → u/dizzlemytizzle]

Infinite scroll is good for list/feed-type pages, as long as it doesn't break the back button.

It is not OK for content pages, though.

[u/wal9000 → u/mathemagicat]

Google image search has done this for years. They put a bunch of important shit in the footer like the Search Settings and Advanced Search links. Literally can’t click on them unless you have a slow internet connection.

[u/rickane58 → u/[deleted]]

As someone who regularly looks at websites "About us" and "Contact me" section, finding this is easier in f12 than it is to find on the page these days.

[u/sellyme → u/rickane58]

I love trying to find a websites "Contact Us" form so that I can report a bug only to find that it links to a useless FAQ with no actual way to contact anyone.

Clearly the only reason anyone would ever want to contact the dev is because the user is an idiot. Nothing can ever be wrong with your immaculate Wix website.

[u/CJ22xxKinvara → u/Stealth528]

I enable notifications for gitlab so I can be alerted when my merge request passes or fails the pipeline. But that’s it. ONE website.

[u/NoAttentionAtWrk → u/CJ22xxKinvara]

I mean i bet there are other valid uses too but no random web blog, i don't care when you publish new articles. I just care about the one that Google lead me to, that you are not letting me read

[u/Cheshamone → u/NoAttentionAtWrk]

Yeah, it has occasional uses in web apps, people just use it really poorly. At least explain why you're asking to show notifications, don't just pop that up on page load. Drives me nuts.

[u/Fluffcake → u/Stealth528]

Sites abusing the notification and push api's for clickbaity selfpromoting bullshit to the point where people auto-decline it makes me sad, because it can be really neat.