The first thing I do on any browser is to completely disable notifications, on PC and mobile both. There are zero legitimate use cases for this. If you need notifications, install an app.
Why should every site be an app wrapper just to be able to notify you? The abuse is a serious problem that needs to be solved but I don't see more apps being the solution.
> Safari for iOS and iPadOS supports push notifications as of version 16.4, but only for apps that were added to the Home Screen. Apple calls these Home Screen web apps
Why an app? An app has much more control over your phone without your knowledge. And this is also about desktop browsers, where there's less apps.
I loathe notifications and turn 99% of them off, but there are use cases for this and I'm glad that Apple has finally caved in to better support web apps and not only their walled garden.
I have enabled notifications for only 2 things: outlook webmail and Microsoft Teams on my professional laptop (Linux user). I don't need those to be applications (teams app is a website anyway).
I am glad the option exist and I am also happy I can choose to ignore that option for 99.99% of the websites I visit.
Bottom line: choice is good as long as it is opt-in and not opt-out.
on desktop they are maybe not that useful but for mobile they can be occasionally useful:
- ordering some food or pizza when you are just for short time in different city / country - I don't want to install some dedicated app that I won't use anymore in a week or two.
- renting e-scooter when on vacation - again each country usually has different such e-bike providers.
- local taxi app - uber / gojek /grab is not in every country
