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I kind of dislike the app/website distinction that people make sometimes, but even I feel like this is a pretty decent line between the two: "a thing I 'install' means that I want it to have more capabilities than something that I want to be transient." I agree, it's good UX.

And similarly, it's great to tie that to the app list -- it means if you want to get rid of those permissions, you now have a really easily viewable list of every site that's sending you notifications (I'm assuming that iOS revokes push notifications if an app is unpinned from the homescreen).

There are ways in browser to get lists of every site that can send you notifications, but nobody outside of tech circles will ever find them. In contrast, this is reusing the same UI that you'd use for any other cleanup action. Everything that can send notifications is in the same place. That's something I can explain to a non-technical user.



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