Hello, dear readers!
This technical article is primarily dedicated to all of you. To keep up with the times, in October 2016, I added to my website the ability to send pop-up push-up notifications for Chrome and Firefox browsers. To do this, I switched to a secure https connection, may Google and Yandex reward me with traffic.
What are Push-up notifications
Push-up notifications are short pop-up notifications that appear on the screen of a personal computer or smartphone, which report updates on the site and other important events. For example, you can use them to congratulate readers (subscribers), but not write a “congratulatory” article.
Initially, Push notifications appeared as a way for mobile applications to interact with users of smartphones and tablets. However, recently the technology of browser push notifications or web push has become very popular.
How to subscribe to a web push website
When you visit my website immediately or after a while, the following notification will appear on your browser screen. Click ALLOW
Or this notification (on a darkened screen)
You will immediately receive a subscription confirmation
Now you will receive such notifications as soon as a new article appears on my blog. Sometimes I make announcements of popular old articles - perhaps they will interest you too.
Three easy ways to disable Push notifications
For example, you became uninterested in receiving news from my website and decided to unsubscribe.
Two mouse clicks
It's simple! To do this, you can right-click on the next notification you receive and click TURN OFF NOTIFICATIONS
Two mouse clicks somewhere else
Site setup
If you do not want to wait for the next message, you can unsubscribe at any time in your browser settings on the site. To do this, click on the padlock in the address bar and go to the site settings
Then scroll through the settings to ALERTS and click “Configure exceptions”
Then REMOVE my site from notification exceptions
This way you will prevent the receipt of push notifications.
Push notifications on a smartphone
To unsubscribe from push notifications on your smartphone, click on the padlock in the address bar of your mobile browser. Next, click SITE SETTINGS
Click ALERTS
Click BLOCK
And the second option is to click CLEAR AND RESET
If you want to be the first to know about new articles, subscribe to PUSH notifications about my blog updates. If you suddenly get tired of receiving messages from me, you can unsubscribe at any time.
Repost the pinned post on my VKontakte page and receive .
Also here you can leave a review about my newsletter, what you liked and what you didn’t.
iPhone push notifications, iPad and iPod Touch - allow the device owner to always be aware of what is happening with iOS applications and monitor the relevant information on the screen of their mobile device, where notifications about new SMS or application updates appear.
In the iOS device settings, you can easily configure many Push notification settings, for example: select applications from which sound notifications will come, display banners, notifications on application icons, set up reminder notifications in the calendar. Also, you can choose which applications notifications will appear on the locked screen and which applications will not. If on iPhone not receiving notifications from any application, which means you need to enable notifications in the iPhone Notification Center, this is done for each application separately. You can learn more about notifications and how to use them on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch by reading this article. You may also want to read the article in which we talked about “”
How to set up notifications on iPhone and iPad
Setting up notifications on iPhone and iPad is very simple; for this purpose, the iOS operating system installed on iPhone and iPad has a separate menu.
Where to set up iPhone notifications
You can find the notification settings menu as follows, go to the following path:
"Home" ⇒ "Settings" ⇒ "Notifications"
iPhone notification view
Once you are in the “Notifications” menu of your iPhone, at the very top of the screen you will see the “Notification Type” subsection, which allows you to sort programs:
TYPE OF NOTIFICATIONS:
- Manually
- By time
This section is intended for more convenient sorting of notifications from applications
If you select “Manual”, this means that applications will be sorted manually. To do this, click "Edit" in the upper right corner of the screen and drag the applications in the order that you prefer.
If you select “By time”, then the iPhone Notification Center will automatically sort the display of notifications by the time the notifications arrived, regardless of the application.
You can now touch the screen to swipe down to view apps from the Notification Center.
In submenu "Include"—shows all applications installed on your iPhone (iPad) that use the Notification Center. Let's take the Messages application as an example, under it we see it says: Stickers, Sounds, Banners, i.e., when you receive a message, you will see a +1 notification on the messages icon (Sticker), hear a signal (Sounds) and see a notification in top of the screen (Banner), all of which are used by the Messages app.
In submenu "Do not turn on"- Shows apps that have notifications turned off in iPhone's Notification Center.
Setting up iPhone notifications
Turn iPhone notifications on or off
Allow notifications- In order to enable notifications iPhone from the app, open it and toggle the switch "Allow notifications" to position "On"
- In order to disable (remove) notifications iPhone from the application, you need to move the switch "Allow notifications" to position "Off". In order to turn off notifications, you can drag the application down to the applications with disabled notifications.
Let's set up notifications for the Messages app
Select the “Notifications” menu, the “Messages” application and open it, after which the settings menu will open, specifically for this application.
What settings are available, let's look at everything point by point
- "Allow notifications"- enable or disable iPhone and iPad notifications
- "In Notification Center"— number of objects in the notification center
- "Notification Sound"- select notification sound for each application
- "Badge Sticker"— a “Number” that appears on application icons, indicating the number of new notifications
- "On the locked screen"— enable notifications on the locked screen or disable notifications on the locked screen
Warning style on unlocked device
In the “Alert Style” subsection, you can choose the style for displaying notifications:
- No- refusal to display banners
- Banners- appear immediately upon receipt of a notification from the application, at the top of the screen and are automatically minimized.
- Warnings- in this case, you will have to make a choice to “Close” or “View” the notification from the application
Also, in the same menu, at the very bottom of the page, there are items:
- Show views— depending on its position, the message text will (On) or not (Off) appear on the screen. If you want no one to see the text of the message on the locked screen, then it is better to set the switch to the “Off” position.
- Repeat warnings— how many times the phone will remind you of unviewed notifications. Warnings appear every 2 minutes. It is possible to turn it off, put it on 1 time, 2, 3, 5 and 10 times.
Here's what the alerts look like on iPhone:
I am sure that this article will be in much greater demand among readers than the previous one ( about how to subscribe to these messages). Today I'll tell you how to disable browser push notifications V most popular Internet browsers.
The fact is that ad blockers We have not yet learned how to effectively deal with such pop-up messages. In this battle between good and evil, the user plays a decisive role - only he can disable browser push notifications in his browser settings with his own hands.
I won’t drag it out for too long, because you came for specific information - so get it...
How to disable push notifications in Mozilla Firefox
You can snooze push notifications (enable Do Not Disturb mode) or disable them from a specific site in Mozilla Firefox from the messages themselves - this is the fastest and easiest way. As soon as the window appears, we poke the small gear in the corner...
You can globally and in one fell swoop deal with push notifications in Mozilla Firefox (and all its clones) in the browser settings. You can immediately get to the notification settings by clicking on the bottom menu bar from the gear (screen above) or go the long way...
In the “Content” settings section, find “Notifications” and click the “Select” button...
Here, too, everything should be clear - delete one site at a time or completely all, with one click. This way you will “unsubscribe” from push notifications that you have already “subscribed” to. Don't forget to click on "Save Changes".
If you notice, there is a site in the list with the “Block” value. Now I will never be bothered with him (until I remove him from this list). How is this implemented? It’s just that when you are asked for permission to send push notifications, you don’t need to rush...
By the way, in Mozilla Firefox you can quickly and easily remove permission for push notifications directly from the website page...
You can also enable a temporary (until you restart the browser) Do Not Disturb mode in your browser settings...
...but this is a sad half-measure. I feel how many users trembled, anticipating sweets...
How to disable push notifications in Mozilla Firefox completely
Let's disable Mozilla Firefox's ability to receive (display) any push notifications fully. To do this, type into the address bar...
dom.webnotifications.enabled
All that remains is to double-click on the result found...
...should become...
Now you know how to disable push notifications in Mozilla Firefox completely.
Please note that after the next browser update, this procedure will need to be repeated.
How to disable push notifications in Google Chrome
Disabling push notifications in Google Chrome (and all its clones) is also very simple - go to settings...
...there we go down to the very bottom (with the mouse wheel) and click on “Show additional settings”...
In the “Personal Data” section, click on the “Content Settings...” button...
...and again going lower, finding the “Alerts” section, move the dot to “Do not show alerts on sites.” As I understand it, this is a global order (it works even after restarting Google Chrome) and there is no need to go into the browser configuration, like my colleague above. Check it out yourself and write in the comments about the result (it’s like homework for you)…
Hello, dear readers of the blog site. You've probably already encountered so-called push notifications? They can often be found on a mobile phone or tablet (for example, with a message that one of your installed applications has been updated), and in regular browsers on a regular computer or laptop they also began to actively appear (we can say that this is a new trend ).
Moreover, the push message pops up not necessarily in the browser window, but as if without being tied to it (on top of all windows). This looks like some kind of reminder (example in the screenshot):
At first I had one problem with push notifications - how to close this garbage so that it would not appear in my browser again. It turned out that you need to right-click on the push message and refuse to receive it (who would have thought!). But then everyone started talking about attaching this thing to the site, and I, naturally, could not stay away so as not to try, and at the same time not write about it. The main advantage here is that to subscribe the user just needs to agree, without indicating anything (not even an email).
I don’t know if I chose the optimal method for connecting a subscription to push notifications, but for the experiment, I think it will do. I used the service SendPulse, which allows you to configure, connect and track push statistics absolutely free(at least for now). Actually, everything is simple, but I’ll still explain the nuances.
What are push notifications and how are they better than email newsletters?
As I already said, push notifications were originally used for slightly different purposes. For example, my beloved DoctorWeb sent messages about the availability of new database updates or the expiration of the license. They were shown in the lower right corner above the tray. In mobile devices, as I already said, the sources of sending such information messages were applications.
Recently they have been gaining popularity browser push notifications, where the initiator of their distribution is the site. Actually, it is precisely this matter that we will try to use today for our benefit. I won’t go into the technology (for example, are you interested in how email works or is it enough that it works?), because it’s unnecessary, and I don’t know much. Let's concentrate on use.
Obviously, this type of notification seriously competes with the already classic marketing email newsletter (by the way, you know that the smart responder has died for a long time) or, at least, is a good alternative. At the same time, push technology has a number of distinctive features that could be considered as advantages compared to email newsletters:
For what marketing purposes? can you use push notifications? Yes, in fact, for the same ones as the Email newsletter - news (new material on the article, for example), sales (sniffing), events (promotions, sales, freebies), reminders (“you haven’t checked out your cart”, etc. ), congratulations, etc. and so on. Well, the same rules apply - because if you are annoying, they will unfollow you (those who know how to do this, of course).
How to set up push notifications in SendPulse for free?
Well, it's simple here. At first register on SendPulse, then log into your “My Account” account (by default, you will have the “Free” tariff activated, which is quite suitable for our purposes). Then go to the “Push” tab from the top menu and start setting this up.
Add your site, after which the wizard window for setting up push notifications in SendPulse will open:
After this, you will be prompted to install the code (one line) on your website. It should be displayed on all pages and it is recommended to put it before the closing HEAD tag (in WordPress this piece of code can usually be found in the header.php file from the folder with the theme you are using):
After that, reset the cache on the site (if you use it) and click on the “Check settings” button. Actually, you can just go to the site and see (in my case) an inviting button appearing at the bottom right. When you move your mouse over it, the user will see the message you created, and when clicked, he will be asked to subscribe:
If he does subscribe, then they will no longer pester him about it and the subscribe button will no longer appear on other pages of your site that he will visit.
Creating push notifications and their statistics in SendPulse
If you want to edit anything else, then on the “push” tab of the main page of your SendPulse personal account you will need to click on the gear in the line with the site you need:
Settings are not complicated and boil down to editing what you did when creating this push notification subscription form.
Here you can also activate and set a welcome message. When you select the type and type of the subscription form and finalize it (there is no need to change the code - the changes will take effect anyway), then it’s time to figure out what how to create and send these push notifications. To do this, you will need to click on the “Send push” button located at the top on the “push” tab (from the top menu):
Actually, everything is clear here. For this notification, for example, you can select a different picture, and by clicking on the gear button, you can set the lifetime of this message, delay its sending for a certain time, and also add your own UTM tag, if necessary.
You can view site statistics by again selecting the appropriate item from the left menu (with the desired site):
So, how do you like this whole thing? Is it worth bothering with these push notifications or what the heck? Is SendPulse ideal for these purposes or are there other worthy options? And, by the way, how can I send out a push notification automatically after a new post appears in the RSS feed?
