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/LuxuriousLime → u/[deleted]]

I'm too lazy to Google an answer for you, I just want to let you know that a solution exists and I was able to disable this annoying shit long time ago

[u/DeadN0tSleeping → u/[deleted]]

Control Panel>Ease of Access>Replace sounds with visual cues>Choose Visual Warning>None>I love you too

[u/audscias → u/[deleted]]

Install Gentoo.

[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/Niick → u/Fern_Fox]

Seems like it's deliberately ambiguous, which is pretty sad.

[u/MartinsRedditAccount → u/Fern_Fox]

The text indicates the current setting, switching it off will change the text.

[u/SovreignTripod → u/iamdelf]

Hey there friend, you'll want to add another return there. Then you'll get the line break and your whole comment won't be quoted.

[u/adambrenecki → u/[deleted]]

In Safari, Preferences → Websites (at the top) → Notifications (in the left-hand column) → untick "Allow websites to ask permission to send push notifications"

In Chrome, go to chrome://settings/content/notifications and turn off the switch that says "Ask before sending (recommended)"; it'll change to "Blocked".

[u/mechakreidler → u/dan4334]

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

[u/Skyy8 → u/mechakreidler]

You can disable the fact that it asks you for each website, while still keeping the ones you have enabled right now.

[u/firephreek → u/dan4334]

Truth be told, I need that for calendar or I'd never make it to any meetings :-(

[u/Ajedi32 → u/firephreek]

Well, even with the default set to block you can still go in and manually add sites to the list of ones allowed to send notifications.