One behavior I'm starting to notice with increasing frequency on the web is sites that immediately prompt users for permission to show desktop notifications the moment they land on the site.

This is very annoying and I nearly always immediately hit "Block", especially when it's just a random news article or forum post I got to through Google or Reddit. Personally I'd prefer if browsers would just ignore requests for this permission that occur automatically without any sort of user interaction.

As evidence that this is a problem, here's a short list of examples of sites that immediately prompt for notification permissions the moment you visit the site:

• https://themerkle.com/
• https://www.bhphotovideo.com/
• https://joaoapps.com/
• https://community.storj.io/
• https://fee.org/

If you use Chrome, there's a pretty decent chance you can find numerous other examples by going to chrome://settings/content/notifications and looking through the list of sites you have set to explicitly block notifications from.