Mozilla vs notification prompts: Most modern browsers 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).
But Mozilla thought to release a new feature in Firefox that will block all requests to accept notifications on application browsing.
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 use telemetry to understand better the requests. Mozilla wants to collect data about the “conditions in which users interact with authorization prompts”, but also the time it takes them to decline a request. The data collection will "run for a limited period of time, and on a very small percentage of users."
Firefox users who do not wish to participate in the above surveys can disable their participation in the settings:
Open the internal about:preferences#privacy page and find Firefox Data Collection and Use. Uncheck “Allow Firefox to install and run studies” to block Shield studies.
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