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 By Tom Simonite on October 28, 2014

 

 

What some call the smartphone era might better be termed the notification era.

The pop-up windows that inform you of a new message or tweet have become a central part of using mobile devices. And wearable devices such as Google Glass and the Apple Watch have been designed largely as conduits for notifications. Now, ordinary websites are going to send them to you too.

In 2015, most leading Web browsers will be set to support what are known as push notifications. Sites using the technology will be able to ask visitors if they wish to opt in to receive notifications. The site can then deliver them, even if that site is not open in the browser at the time. A news site might use Web notifications to alert users to a breaking story, for example. The technology should become available on both PCs and mobile devices.

 

 http://www.technologyreview.com/news/531971/alert-websites-will-soon-start-pushing-app-style-notifications/
The ONLY website that I would even consider allowing to send me notifications for would be the National Weather Service in the event of potentially severe weather.

 

Other than that, I would be a major OPT OUT user LOL.  The last thing I would want is to use this for the most part... web sites are creating enough of a database of us as it is, and this would only make that worse.  Of course there is the notification itself as well, as I get too many of them as it is.  I intentionally keep Facebook and other such sites CLOSED for most of the day so that I am not getting an unending stream of mindless notifications!
Indeed @  I agree, and I don't see this as a desirable prospect, rather that it might open up a whole new potential for malicious use of 'update' features.

Certainly not for me...the only software I trust to notify/autoupdate etc is WSA! 

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