https://twitter.com/ceejbot/status/926293716754563072
Seriously, have you *ever* said yes to some website’s request to send you notifications?
@natecull My employer, for some unknown reason, set Chrome to automatically say "yes" to any website that wants to send notifications. And it's locked down in the administrator settings, so I can't turn it off.
Why would someone think that's a good idea? It seems like an invitation for malware. Someone just has to visit the wrong site, maybe even by accident, and BOOM! the whole network could be infected.
@ink_slinger @natecull My guess: they have an internal app that they want to be able to push notifications at you, and the IT people decided it would be easier to just force Chrome to accept notifications from all sites than to figure out how to force it to accept notifications from just that one site.
(sigh)
@jalefkowit @natecull That's probably it, though I can't for the life of me think what the internal app could be (unless it's something that doesn't apply to all staff, which would make the situation even more absurd).