Mozilla Will Run Two Experiments This Month With Firefox To Explore Ways To Fight Push Notification Permission Spam

'Mozilla said this week that it intends to run two experiments over
the course of this month to determine the most adequate way of dealing
with push notification spam, a growing problem that is slowly
deteriorating the web experience for everyone. From a report:

The experiments will run in Firefox Nightly (v68) and Firefox Beta
(v67). The Firefox Nightly experiment will run from April 1 to April
29. During this time, Mozilla said Firefox Nightly would only allow
websites to show a push notification permission only after the user
has clicked or pressed a key while on a website. All attempts to show
a push notification permission request before a click or key press
will be blocked by default. [...] In the last two weeks of the
experiment, Firefox will show an icon in the URL bar, but with no
visible popup on the page. Users can click this icon and accept any
push notification permission requests if they wish so.'

-- source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/04/02/1941232

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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