Exactly - you are using something to get around the user preference... the "actual push permission dialog"... I repeat again, you should consider being less aggressive, and use an "opt-IN" button on the page, instead of forcing a dialog to choose opt-in or opt-out. I simply don't understand what is gained by forcing it, all I know is that it's annoying, undesirable, and the only way to stop it is to stop visiting. I don't see linked instructions to block at a network level... which I wouldn't bother with anyway. I'll just stop visiting. Thanks.
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Push Notification Problem
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+1 for pushing whoever is responsible for that dialog to switch to the native dialog. Said native dialog, along with the corresponding preference, exist for a reason. The current behavior feels similar to iOS games circumventing the (fairly new) native "rate us on the app store" dialog and the restrictions that come with it.
I understand you're a OneSignal customer, so technically, it's on them to solve the problem. But in terms of user experience, it's still MacRumors that ends up looking bad: I have made a choice in my preferences, and MacRumors is the only site in all of my bookmarks that circumvents my choice by ditching the native mechanism in favor of the JavaScript thing, presumably because of cross-platform reasons.
This isn't a huge inconvenience — personally, I quickly got used to clicking away that dialog along with the "we value your privacy" layer. It's just a little annoying. Or perhaps it can be put this way: Visiting macrumors.com now comes with a little more friction than it used to.
But it might be useful for you to know that there are regular readers like me who encounter that dialog pretty much every day. And it seems a little odd for a site that has "Mac" in its name and at its core to ignore native solutions.
(A cookie won't help me. Unless I'm posting on the forums, I usually browse MacRumors without being logged in. And I clear my history/cookies somewhat regularly for a mixture of historic and technical reasons.)
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I'm having the exact same issue with Safari 13.0.4 on a MacBook Pro.
Come to think of it, I haven't seen MR notifications in a while now… Maybe since the switch to Catalina?
Since I also run High Sierra from time to time, MR push notifications with the exact same version of Safari work as expected. I did notice, however, that even in Safari 13 some sites do not push at all while in Safari 9 (Mavericks) they do (such as AppleInsider, thefreedictionary). This is strange. In Safari 9 others offer push notifications (I see the pull-down window) however they don't send any (reddit, Facebook, messenger, affinity forums, gab) while even in Safari 13 most of them don't even show the prompt.
I assume push notifications servers' maintenance is cost-inefficient for the sites' owners and is not updated, hence is the reason why it works in Mavericks but doesn't in newer versions. I specially went to the sites that were claimed to support push notifications to Mac: NewYork Times, Washington Post, a bunch of others – no one did prompt me to accept receiving them.
Looks like push notification for Mac is not welcome option for the majority of sites.
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Yep, that should work. You having problems?
