Push Notification Reminder

[BigRedX]

How do I turn off the Push Notification reminder?

 

Every time a reply is made in one of the threads I have asked for notifications, I get a red circle with a number in it next to the bell icon at the top of the screen. However when I go to see which thread it is I also get a massive note pleading with me to turn on Push Notifications. Is there any way of banishing this so that I never see it again?

 

I don't need Push Notifications. The notifications within the Basschat forum are more than sufficient as I am here every day. And any day I'm not here it's because I'm doing something more important and wouldn't want to be bombard with Push Notifications. Just want some way of saying "Thanks, but no thanks". about Push Notifications once and then never be asked about them again.

[Wombat]

That will most likely be a setting on your phone. It’s different on android & Apple but if you go settings and look for notifications then apps there should be a slider next to Basschat 

[Wombat]

I also just saw that you ca do this in the app. On the menu go account settings, notification settings and then at the bottom there are notification types available. Turn off push.

[BigRedX]

I'm not on my phone. IMO phones a terrible for doing anything on this site other than basic passive browsing.

 

I have already turned off Push Notifications. What I want is a way of banishing forever the pleading for me to turn them on.

[BigRedX]

In case anyone is wondering what I am on about, it is this:

 

 

I'm currently getting it once a day when I have a new notification. I'll not see it again until I next get a notification tomorrow or later.

 

However I've already opted out of Push Notifications so why all this pleading for me to turn them on? 

[ped]

2 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

In case anyone is wondering what I am on about, it is this:

 

 

I'm currently getting it once a day when I have a new notification. I'll not see it again until I next get a notification tomorrow or later.

 

However I've already opted out of Push Notifications so why all this pleading for me to turn them on? 

 

Are you blocking cookies on Basschat?

[BigRedX]

1 minute ago, ped said:

Are you blocking cookies on Basschat?

 

Not that I'm aware of. Besides if I was blocking cookies wouldn't I also need to log in every time I visited?

 

Also if I was blocking cookies wouldn't I get this message every time I got a notification?

Edited Friday at 11:18 by BigRedX

[ped]

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

 

Not that I'm aware of. Besides if I was blocking cookies wouldn't I also need to log in every time I visited?

 

Also if I was blocking cookies wouldn't I get this message every time I got a notification?

 

It has to be browser based - there are lots of different cookies so this one must be getting deleted or not stored properly due to privacy or adblocker settings. Might be worth whitelisting BC if you can and clearing your cookies then trying a hard refresh to see if that stores it.

[BigRedX]

Can you let me know the name/ID of the cookie involved so I can see what is happening with it?

[ped]

12 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

Can you let me know the name/ID of the cookie involved so I can see what is happening with it?

I’m not sure how to but maybe @Woodinblack might know if it’s possible

[BigRedX]

These are the cookies currently associated with Basschat. Can you let me know which of these is responsible for the Push Notification reminder, or if it is missing what it is called.

Thanks!

[Woodinblack]

Will have a look tonight, but I never get the push notifications box on this machine ever (and don't have them on), but I have seen it on the PC on firefox a couple of times.

[Woodinblack]

On 13/02/2026 at 13:44, BigRedX said:

These are the cookies currently associated with Basschat. Can you let me know which of these is responsible for the Push Notification reminder, or if it is missing what it is called.

Thanks!

 

While looking through the code (which is slow, I am not an expert on javascript, nor do I ever want to be), I did find out where the cookie was heading and made, but while looking at other things, I noticed that if you go to your notification menu, on the top right of the notification menu is a section marked 'notification settings', in that page, at the bottom in the middle there is a section for push notifications. The second option of which says "Stop all push notifications". Does pressing this fix the issue?

 

But in answer to your actual question of 'which cookie controls the notification'. its 'ips4_browserNotificationDismiss' which on my machine has a date sometime in the past (23rd Jan), 

[BigRedX]

Thanks for looking into this for me. The problems isn't with getting Push Notifications. I have them switched off and always have since they were first introduced.

 

I believe this is the setting you were referring to:

 

 

It's the pleading for me to turn them on each time I get new notification more than 24 hours after the last one. Consequently I got another this morning as a result of your reply to this thread:

 

 

As I said. I don't need Push Notifications. As far as I know I have opted out so why do I still get messages pleading with me to turn them on?

 

Looking at the list of Cookies that are active in this browser, I notice that the Push Notification one is missing from my list. Will this be the reason that I keep getting these messages? The only reason I can think of for it to be missing is because it contravenes Apple's default privacy settings for Safari.

 

[Woodinblack]

ok, looked into it a bit further on my main basschat machines, which is a windows computer 8:30-5 and a mac with safari the rest of the time, and the one that controls this is 'notificationPushRejected', which in your cookies is ips4_notificationPushRejected. I have it on both the PC and the Mac, which as far as I know has standard settings (and just checked my other mac up here, it has the same cookie and is standard).

 

In the cookie window in safari it shows as:

 

ips4_notificationPushRejected   true   www.basschat.co.uk  /   16/02/2027 11:11:38

 

which I notice is a year away from when I opened basschat on that machine this morning. Quiting and restarting safari doesn't seem to change it.

 

Yep, looking at the javascript, clicking the close box on the 'stay up to date' box writes the cookie ips4_notificationPushRejected with a timeout of a year + 100 seconds (no idea why the 100 seconds).

Everytime there is a notification, the first thing it does is check if that cookie is present, and if so it doesn't put the box up and goes on its merry way. If it isn't present and you haven't actually had that box displayed to you in the current session it puts the box up.

It seems like maybe somehow that box is getting dismissed without pressing the close box somehow?

[BigRedX]

I think I might have sorted it.

 

In the notification preferences where before it said "enable in this browser" after clicking on that and getting a message asking me if I wanted to enable Push Notifications which I rejected, the status has now changed to "Permission was denied in this browser"

I still don't have the cookie mentioned in your post, and I'll have to wait until sometime tomorrow at the earliest when someone replies to one of the threads I'm following to see whether or not I get the message asking me if I want to enable Push Notifications. 

Edited 1 hour ago by BigRedX