Has anyone noticed the increased frequency in which websites want you to allow them to notify you? It seems like every site I go to wants me to allow them to notify me, about what I do not know or care so I click no. Does anyone know the cause of this sudden increase in the past few months, did my adblocker stop working properly, or have I just been that oblivious and this has been going on for years?
I've been noticing that too.
For some reason, it's particularly strong on cooking recipe blogs and news sites for me. It's almost become instinctual to go to a site, deny the request for notifications, close the pop up asking me to subscribe to the newsletter/buy their book/whatever, pause the auto-playing video, and then maybe read the content.
I feel like this will be looked back on as the 2010's version of the late-90's "moving gifs all over the page" craze. Just ridiculous and in the way.