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Chrome 42 Launches With Push Notifications
An anonymous reader writes: Google today launched Chrome 42 for Windows, Mac, and Linux with new developer tools. Chrome 42 offers two new APIs (Push API and Notifications API) that together allow sites to send notifications to their users even after the given page is closed. While this can be quite an intrusive feature for a browser, Google promises the users have to first grant explicit permission before they receive such a message.
So after all the problems with malware-ridden popups and other unwanted crap Google gives us this?
Sure, there's no way it's going to get abused. Or cracked.
I can't think of a single reason why I would use a browser with google's snooping technology baked right into it.
Can we go back to the web being "Hey can I get your page at site.tld/page.ext ?" and "Sure, here is what you asked for, and not an entire cart of horseshit jammed in with it, alongside it, or after it! Thank you for visiting our website, valuable reader / customer!"?
What "crap" are we talking about here?
Chrome didn't make Mozilla botch the switch to more frequent releases of Firefox. Mozilla did that on its own.
Chrome didn't make Mozilla ruin Firefox's UI. Mozilla did that on its own.
Chrome didn't prevent Mozilla from finally fixing Firefox's long-standing memory leaks and poor performance. Mozilla has avoided those fixes on their own.
Chrome didn't even cause Firefox's market share to drop from around 35% to 10%. Mozilla caused that by itself, by shitting upon Firefox users over and over again.
Chrome didn't cause Mozilla to spin its wheels with useless, unwanted shit like Firefox OS, Persona, asm.js, and all of their other failed projects. Mozilla did that on its own.
Mozilla has royally fucked up time and time again. Chrome didn't cause them to fuck up like that. Mozilla did it on their own.
Oh great, so if I stumble on a page so full of crap that I decide to backtrack the hell away, the site can still shove notifications in my face, even though I clearly don't want that content? Yeah, I have to explicitly allow it, that's awfully nice of them. But how long will opting out last when the advertisers realize they can force a few more eyeballs? Is there another browser out there that hasn't been bloated to death with "features"? I jumped from Firefox to Chrome when they started churning versions, but Chrome just jumped the shark by doing the same thing.
Left MS Windows for Linux Mint and never looked back!
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Way back in the day when Microsoft was unleashing IE onto the world, everybody howled that they were introducing new IE specific things for websites to be able to provide, eg ActiveX. Now it seems that google is doing the same thing with Chrome. In both cases the idea is to take ownership of the web...
Does your iPhone violate Canadian law as well? It too has push notifications.
Make no mistake, I will disable or somehow block this "feature". But seriously - You can't really whine too loudly over your favorite free and not-default-on-any-platform program suddenly including a feature you don't like.
You are complaining that you have to turn something off which is disabled by default. You just told everyone you prefer being upset to being well-informed, and that is not very becoming.