# Annoying "enable notifications" message
**URL:** https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257
**Category:** Site Feedback
**Created:** [October 12, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257 "2018-10-12T08:48:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/1 "2018-10-12T08:48:54Z")
Every time I log into this forum I see a “would you like to activate notifications?” message in a yellow bar.
I don’t wan’t to activate those live notifications, so how I can deactivate the message and/or the live notifications? I haven’t found any options in the preferences.
Or do I have to activate the live notifications to get rid of this annoying yellow message?
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### Author:  [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 10:38am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/2 "2018-10-12T10:38:58Z")
You haven’t said which browser you are using.
Normally you can block a site and then you shouldn’t be asked again.
You can even disable asking for notifications altogether and your browser won’t ask for any site anymore unless you manually whitelist one.
Take a look at your browser settings.
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### Author:  [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/3 "2018-10-12T10:43:50Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#):
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> You haven’t said which browser you are using.
It’s not browser depended. I’m referring to this message:
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#):
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> Normally you can block a site and then you shouldn’t be asked again.
I did that already. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/4 "2018-10-12T10:45:57Z")
Oh OK, then just override its style to hide it.
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### Author:  [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 10:47am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/5 "2018-10-12T10:47:27Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#):
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> Oh OK, then just override its style to hide it.
So Discourse hasn’t an option to turn it off?
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### Author:  [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/6 "2018-10-12T10:50:54Z")
You can enable or disable browser notifications.
But when browser notifications are disabled it shows this yellow message and I don’t see another way to hide it.
Have you tried enabling it and then disabling it?
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### Author:  [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 10:54am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/7 "2018-10-12T10:54:20Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#):
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> Have you tried enabling it and then disabling it?
Doesn’t work. ☹
So I guess I have to live with it or to override the style. Thanks for you help!
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### Author:  [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 10:58am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/8 "2018-10-12T10:58:29Z")
> [@Someone](#):
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> or to override the style
Am I the only one who constantly does this? Websites are pulling off all kind of stupid design decisions all the time.
e.g. GOG recently changed their game cards so it doesn’t show ANY useful information on the first page except the price. When I am using a site regularly I wouldn’t want to cope with that.
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### Author:  [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 11:00am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/9 "2018-10-12T11:00:22Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#):
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> Am I the only one who constantly does this?
I admit that I’m too lazy for constantly doing this. 😉
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### Author:  [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 11:03am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/10 "2018-10-12T11:03:07Z")
Using Stylus it’s two clicks to get to the editor.
Then add CSS, save and done.
(Of course beforehand you use the browser’s developer tools the get an idea what styles to change.)
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### Author:  [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/11 "2018-10-12T15:47:59Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#):
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> Am I the only one who constantly does this?
Define constantly. But yes, of course I write my own userstyles. 🙂
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### Author:  [@kaiman](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/kaiman)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/12 "2018-10-12T16:48:43Z")
I’ve notifications blocked for [forums.thimbleweedpark.com](http://forums.thimbleweedpark.com) (in Firefox) and can’t remember seeing anything like that yellow banner. Odd …
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### Author:  [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/13 "2018-10-12T18:16:58Z")
> [@kaiman](#):
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> I’ve notifications blocked for [forums.thimbleweedpark.com](http://forums.thimbleweedpark.com) (in Firefox) and can’t remember seeing anything like that yellow banner. Odd …
Same, btw.
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### Author:  [@Gffp](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Gffp)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/14 "2018-10-12T18:59:13Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#):
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> Am I the only one who constantly does this? Websites are pulling off all kind of stupid design decisions all the time.
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> e.g. GOG recently changed their game cards so it doesn’t show ANY useful information on the first page except the price. When I am using a site regularly I wouldn’t want to cope with that.
Nor please write a European Regulation about it and send it to Bruxelles, I’ll sign it for one, thanks! 🕶
PS. Notifications blocked on Firefox and I see the banner too, anyway.
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### Author:  [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2018, 7:40am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/15 "2018-10-13T07:40:20Z")
> [@Gffp](#):
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> PS. Notifications blocked on Firefox and I see the banner too, anyway.
My bad, I actually have 'em enabled, at least on this particular instance of Firefox. 😊
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### Author:  [@jrial](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/jrial)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2018, 7:41am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/16 "2018-10-16T07:41:36Z")
Yeah, they’ll half-ass it, like everything else they do.
EU: Websites must ask for consent to store cookies.
Websites: We use cookies. Deal with it.
EU: Websites must ask for consent to collect and store private data.
Websites: We collect your private data. You can agree to this, or you can sod off.
Yes, most sites are in blatant violation of the GDPR. But without the teeth to enforce it, what good is legislation?
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### Author:  [@Gffp](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Gffp)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2018, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/17 "2018-10-16T08:46:07Z")
> [@jrial](#):
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> EU: Websites must ask for consent to store cookies.
> Websites: We use cookies. Deal with it.
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> EU: Websites must ask for consent to collect and store private data.
> Websites: We collect your private data. You can agree to this, or you can sod off.
That’s exactly what I was thinking of! 😁 Better to laugh about it. I agree with you about making those rules really work. Actually it would be interesting to know if the European regulation requires the sites to ask consent, or if it requires to allow access to the content also to those who deny the consent. But in this second case, given the nature of the internet (everybody has the right to publish a content as preferred, with very few exceptions) then it’s probably not.
Rules that regulate the access to contents in the internet are a pale image of the complex system of laws that regulate them in the real world or in the other older mass media (Just think of a child which is properly kept out from erotic shops or adult clubs, from porn shows on TV, but with the smartphone his/her parents bought him/her, he/she can access with no restriction to the whole pornography and beyond human. This makes no sense at all.)
This opens a new and important argument. Which is the nature of the internet. I think that we have to start to finally consider internet the opportunity for everyone to publish a content, but not as the total freedom of publishing everything, and as anyone prefers.
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### Author:  [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/annoying-enable-notifications-message/3257/18 "2018-10-16T18:20:30Z")
> [@jrial](#):
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> EU: Websites must ask for consent to store cookies.
> Websites: We use cookies. Deal with it.
There is no obligation whatsoever to ask for permission for functional cookies, which would be absurdly stupid.
> [@jrial](#):
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> Yes, most sites are in blatant violation of the GDPR. But without the teeth to enforce it, what good is legislation?
There are two parts to that. Is it without teeth or has no one relevant been notified?