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Alex Ainslie

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Head of design for @googlechrome. Nerdy about (public) education, (usable) security, and the (mobile) web.

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    Alex Ainslie‏ @alexainslie Jan 7
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    We've been thinking about how to making permission requests for notifications less interruptive in Chrome. Trying to strike balance: loud enough for you notice the important ones and quiet enough so that you can ignore the rest. Feedback welcomed! https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/introducing-quieter-permission-ui-for.html …pic.twitter.com/lJuBACr10K

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      2. Steve Axthelm‏ @steveax Jan 7
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        Replying to @alexainslie @fugueish

        I still do not understand what users actually want these. They are the modern-day pop-unders IMO.

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      3. Alex Ainslie‏ @alexainslie Jan 7
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        Replying to @steveax @fugueish

        We’ve found that notification usefulness ends up being different based on person + platform + site. So it’s been tricky to figure out a good UI for the permission requests (but we want to try)!

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      2. Brian Smith‏ @BRIAN_____ Jan 7
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        Replying to @alexainslie @justinschuh

        I usually block geolocation and every other permission too. I hope there is a more general UI improvement coming.

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      3. Alex Ainslie‏ @alexainslie Jan 8
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        Replying to @BRIAN_____ @justinschuh

        🙂 We're doing some work right now to improve the findability and usability of site-settings which should help make that possible. For permission-prompt-specific stuff we're starting with notifications but could certainly expand as we learn /cc @meggawat @MartijnvdBroeck @maxwkr

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      2. Pablo Llopis‏ @pablollopis Jan 9
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        Replying to @alexainslie

        I'm curious as to why an opt-in setting "Reject all notifications by default, kthxbye" has been missing until today? Seems quite obvious to me. The new approach is even better, but wonder why it was nag-by-default til now.

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      3. Alex Ainslie‏ @alexainslie Jan 9
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        Replying to @pablollopis

        Alex Ainslie Retweeted Alex Ainslie

        Functionality-wise, we've had such a setting (at the top of settings for each permission type) for many years 😭 BUT the strings were confusing so we're trying to make them more clear. Some more background here:https://twitter.com/alexainslie/status/1176612465947238400 …

        Alex Ainslie added,

        Alex Ainslie @alexainslie
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        We're doing a bunch of work in this space at the moment so feedback is welcomed! It's a bit trickier than it seems. For the "images" content setting we use a more specific string in the globally-blocked state, and for managing site-specific choices we show allow/block/ask. pic.twitter.com/0mSSmxnYvc
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      2. Rich Felker‏ @RichFelker Jan 7
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        Replying to @alexainslie @estark37

        Feedback: They're all unimportant and should not be shown at all. If someone wants notifications they can go opt-in. No need to allow the site to prompt them and potentially trick unknowledgable users or risk misclick even by knowledgable ones.

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      3. Alex Ainslie‏ @alexainslie Jan 7
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        Replying to @RichFelker @estark37

        Thanks! Could you expand a bit? (Where would folks need go to opt in? How would they learn about that spot?) Do you think our proposal strikes an OK balance?

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