These days annoying website prompts asking users to approve notifications are a daily occurrence on desktop browsers. Open a page and boom, you’re asked if you want to see notifications about new posts from the site.  Smartphone users have become accustomed to seeing notifications from apps they’ve installed but the feature hasn’t translated so well to the web, where web developers have demanded mobile-like notifications and in too many cases bombarded end-users with requests from sites that are of passing interest.  The spammy notification requests became widespread enough that Firefox maker Mozilla to early last year release a feature in Firefox 59 that allowed users to block all notification requests.  Chrome and Safari also allow users to block these push notifications but the settings aren’t easy to locate.

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