Mozilla vs notification prompts: Τα περισσότερα σύγχρονα προγράμματα tours support push notifications. You know the windows that show some websites and ask you to accept the sending of notifications to the browser. 
Users should accept these notifications in order for sites to use the system.
Practically it may sound very good, but too many websites very quickly quickly adopted the new feature and so it has become quite annoying (for me personally).
Mozilla, however, thought of releasing a new feature in Firefox that would block all alert acceptance requests in the browser.
Mozilla announced yesterday that it intends to test to better understand the notifications in order to be able to reduce them in Firefox.
Data collected by Mozilla shows that the majority of requests for acceptance of notifications are rejected by users. From 25 December 2018 to 24 2019 January, Firefox Beta users saw 18 million alert prompts, but only 3% of them were accepted by users, while 19% caused the immediate closure of the page by users.
Mozilla plans to run two experiments on Firefox notification acceptance requests.
The first experiment will run on Firefox 68 Nightly from 1 April to 29 April 2019:
In the first two weeks: Firefox will not be alerted unless a user interacts with the last two weeks: Firefox will display a moving icon in the address bar if a browser alert is removed.
The second experiment will uses telemetry to understand better τα αιτήματα. Η Mozilla θέλει να συλλέξει δεδομένα για τις “συνθήκες στις οποίες οι χρήστες αλληλεπιδρούν με τις προτροπές εξουσιοδότησης”, αλλά και τον χρόνο που χρειάζονται για να απορρίψουν ένα αίτημα. Η συλλογή δεδομένων θα “τρέχει για ένα περιορισμένο χρονικό διάστημα, και σε ένα πολύ μικρό ποσοστό χρηστών”.
Firefox users who do not wish to participate in the above surveys can disable their participation in the settings:
Open the internal page about: preferences # privacy and find the Firefox Data Collection and Use. Uncheck "Allow Firefox to install and run studies" to block Shield studies.
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