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Has anyone come across a notification they found _useful_? (Aside from the recent April fools xkcd one).

Seems like you don't need an ML system here, just an expert system, which is just, always reject.



Firefox onboarding is fine, fwiw.


Google calendar notifications are useful. Slack notifications are useful (I prefer not to run the Electron version).


For web apps I can imagine good uses for notifications, like how I have a Google Calendar tab pinned and it's useful for it to be able to alert me that I have a meeting in 15 minutes.

But for websites? Can't think of anything.


I wish we could time limit notifications, like it'd be nice to allow notifications to an app for a fixed time period (say a barber queueing app) but I dont want to see ads served by them outside of that time period.


Chat apps.




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