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This chapter is going to cover something that has become a little bit controversial recently. While push notifications on the Web are a powerful feature that inches the Web ever closer to native apps, some developers have started to transform them into trite annoyances that have conditioned users to ignore notifications or turn them off outright. How often do you give an app the okay to send you notifications on your phone? On the Web? There’s a good chance you’re pretty stingy with which apps you give permission to send you notifications.

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Sheppard, D. (2017). Notifications. In: Beginning Progressive Web App Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3090-9_7

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