Somehow, TikTok is sending me notifications even though I don't have the app. And in order to disable them I have to install it.

You have allowed tick-tock website to send you notifications I guess. If so, you can clear this permission in your browser settings.

Website based notifications are the most idiotic, stupid, abusive thing ever in the current internet scene.

I work in IT and they cause so many issues. I 100% blame google and anyone else that added this feature to their browser.
- What's the issue? Are people just randomly accepting notification permission requests all the time? 😲
- Quite like the way that iOS handles it now. The only sites alllowed to request to send notifications are ones you have added to your Home Screen as PWAs
- I've done tech support for a few elder relatives, and most of them have a wall of browser notifications to a bunch of random crap, because they say yes to every popup that appears 🤦‍♂️
  
  It's pretty concerning that their first reaction to a random question is yes....
- Like most problems in IT I blame the users for randomly clicking button they don't understand.
  
  Init is part of the specification so it was always going to be added.
- They're useful in some cases. I used to use the Twitter website (PWA) and it was nice to get notifications without having to install the full bloated app. I use them for forums and web-based chat (like TheLounge IRC client), too
- Just another type of popup I have my ad/script blockers block. As much as I hate that, I hate sites that don't even let you back the fuck out properly even more.
  
  CBS News, which is often shared on aggregates like this and Reddit, was one of the worst. I've had shady scam/porn sites that were easier to go back/close than CBS's god damn website.
- Oh, since I use Firefox is that why I have never seen this ? Good to know .
Fortunately, I have kept this “feature” disabled since it was introduced to browsers.

I don’t know how does it look like, how does it function, and how annoying it is.
- Same, I am yet to find a website notification that is actually useful to me.
I suppose I must have at some point lol. Chrome doesn't list it specifically but I did have website notifications on. I guess another solution would be let them finish deleting my account for inactivity 😂
- One thing to remember in the future, is that recent versions of Android let you long-press on a notification(or half-drag in some modded OEM versions) and it'll tell you what App sent that notification, and even give you options to disable that specific notification or all notifications from that app in general.
- I've literally never even seen a website notification. I wasn't aware they were a thing that existed. I imagine if you follow these simple steps, you too can enjoy the internet without fear.
  
  download Firefox
  
  install Ublock Origin
  
  don't use tiktok
Step 1: duckduckgo Step 2: set fire to the entire browser. Burn it down.
Step 3: stahp going to those places which make you burn it all down.

ITT: User complains that he doesn't understand WebApps and removed at TikTok 🤣.

Though to be fair, the Tiktok should definitely delete the notification subscription from their database if the account is being deleted.
What's a webapp?
- A web site that installs some JS in your browser (called a "service worker") that does shit
- https://web.dev/progressive-web-apps/
Web apps and removed? This isn't the first comment I've seen with "removed" randomly in the middle of a sentence. Are mods censoring comments or something?
- Your instances is sensoring cuss words.
- You have some kind of swear word filter. They said 'removed' or if that also gets censored, the plural of female dogs, but as a verb.
- Looks like an instance specific thing. Not getting that on lemme.ee

Tik Tok is so awful it's disheartening that people don't get it.

I hate how awful yet ubiquitous it is. Depending on your demographic, not having it can mean you miss out on a lot of pop culture and sort of get left behind.

I'm probably in the like 2nd most targeted demographic, so all my friends are on TT and all the trending things related to our hobbies are on there. I constantly feel left out because I'm missing 99% of the content. And it's hard because I want to have dumb conversations about pop culture and hobbies with my friends, but I refuse to download it. It makes me so sad. It's very isolating
- I dont have TT. I also don't have Snapchat. Therefore, I also don't have friends, or have any clue what is going on in the lives of those around me or the pop culture of my generation.
  
  It is a lonely existence, but I refuse to get either of those apps. People have my number. If they actually cared, they could return my texts.
- Assuming you have a phone which ~~skies~~ allows you to deny permissions on an app-level, what is preventing you from browsing it? Is it political? Job related (ie your only device is a work device)?
  
  While you can easily let it feed you crap, you have a reasonable ability to tune what the algo feeds you. Unless you really do have a self control issue, which is legit/fair reading to avoid the temptation.
I didn't install it on my new phone and itmakes me feel like something is missing. That algorithm is so damn addictive. Also miss the recipes on there.
It's really not. It's a dumb flagpole that privacy advocates are burning good will on.
- Get bent
- Holy mixed metaphors Batman.

What do you mean by notification? Is it an email or an android notification?

I shouldve screenshot it too but it looked like it came from the app and I don't have any emails from them. It looked real enough that I went to my notification settings to turn it off but I forgot I uninstalled it a while ago. I'm really confused because I didn't think websites could send notifications through chrome
- Open the Chrome menu, go to Settings > Site Settings > All Sites. Check if you have Tiktok in there, click the site and you'll see a Clear & reset button. Clicking the button should remove any notifications from the site coming from Chrome.
- websites can indeed send you notifications but it you get asked and also you can turn those off somewhere
- So I don’t know how this works on Android, but maybe you can try re-installing the app? On iOS the push token changes for each install of the app. Super weird that can happen…

That shit should be super illegal.

Holy 54 tabs batman!

Don’t ask me how I know the safari tab limit is 500
- right? it’s so annoying and such a “but why” moment
😳
- Daaaaang, I thought I was hot schmidt with 88 tabs
- i found out recently that ios safari has a limit of 500 tabs :( i was not happy!
- Good god what could possibly be in all those tabs!?
May as well put my phone's ram to use!
- You can always download more RAM.
Those are rookie numbers, I’ve got 88 tabs
- Firefox's app puts me at "∞". I think that's what they put if you're above 100.
I've got around 300 open on my phone (Firefox for Android) and 1400 on my work PC (Firefox on Windows)... I need to close the one day. Some might have important stuff open in them though!
- Dude. Just close them
- You should check out bookmarks
- At that point isn't it just as quick to search through your history?
- My friend you need onetab
:)

You should be able to click on the lock, click permissions, and then click reset permissions.

It might be slightly different per browser but that's the jist of it.

Sign up to Anonaddy, instead of giving out your real email addresses use aliases. That way when companies pull this shit you just deactivate the alias.

Wow, I had no idea this existed. Ty
- There is also Simplelogin. I use both since you get a limited number of aliases in their free tiers.

How does that even work? Is it even possible to do that on mobile?

Many websites seem to ask to give me notifications these days