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No, that's fine. Because the "click this button in your browser" popup is part of the normal webpage DOM and can be blocked using existing tools. As opposed to this notification, which was (ab)using the browser itself to spam the user.



It’s not fine. Safari lets me disable the requests globally, which I did, because every stupid website asks for notifications permissions.

Since then, there’s a lot of in-page popups asking the same, exactly as described above. No adblocker seems to be effective against them, and writing custom rules for sites I visit once isn’t sensible use of time...




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