Just a note that this hit central and should be on its way to a Nightly near you.
We also published our blog post for the experiments: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2019/04/01/reducing-notification-permission-prompt-spam-in-firefox/ If you want to help with dog-fooding this feature, I encourage you to remove your existing Notification permissions in about:preferences. I'll keep you posted on the results of these experiments and whenever we make a decision that impacts the release channel. Thanks! Johann On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 2:15 PM Johann Hofmann <jhofm...@mozilla.com> wrote: > In bug 1524619 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524619> I > plan to implement support for requiring a user gesture when calling > Notification.requestPermission() [0] and PushManager.subscribe() [1]. > > The rationale is the increasing amount of unsolicited, out-of-context > notification permission prompts users are receiving on a regular basis. Our > telemetry shows that there is an extremely large gap between Notification > prompt acceptance rate and, say, WebRTC prompts [2]. > > This will land disabled by default. However, we are planning to run > experiments with this feature in Nightly 68, enabling it for a few weeks to > gauge the resulting breakage and overall user experience changes (see bug > 1534456 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1534456>). > > As a result of these changes, we expect to see a lot less prompting for > notifications. This is what we want. However, in some cases there could be > real breakage on sites that need to show notifications as part of their > core user experience (e.g., chat apps). We have set up bug 1536413 > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536413> to track this > breakage. Please keep an eye out and file bugs liberally, blocking that > meta-bug. > > To reach the goal of better, more natural user interaction with > Notification permission prompts, requiring a user gesture may not be > sufficient (or too much). In another experiment, we are planning to further > research the nature of user engagement with permission prompts to come up > with good heuristics that we can ship on release. > > Both experiments will be further discussed in an upcoming blog post. > > As we ramp up automatic denial of permission prompts, in bug 1508961 > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508961>, we will also > experiment with a post-prompt UI that will enable users to revert the > automatic rejection by the browser. > > Note that because PushManager.subscribe() requires a > ServiceWorkerRegistration, as part of this change, we will carry > user-interaction flags through Promises that return > ServiceWorkerRegistration objects. This enables popular examples such as > this one [3] to continue to work when called from an event handler. > > Let me know if you have any thoughts. > > Thanks, > > Johann > > [0] > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notification/requestPermission > > [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/PushManager/subscribe > > > [2] https://mzl.la/2UAAaUd > > [3] > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/PushManager/subscribe#Example > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
