Hi there, I am new to Brave, though fairly brower savvy in general. I am trying to enable desktop push notifications through Brave.
To that end, for the sites I am interested receiving them from, I have (at least temporarily) gone ‘shields down’ on those sites so that I can see/access the option to subscribe (often, but not always, a bell avatar widget).
I have gone into site settings in Brave and ‘Allow’-ed notifications from those sites.
But something is blocking the final step, successful push subscription/completion, as subscriptions aren’t being confirmed (usually with a first push popping up) and further to the point, when one is successfully subscribed through a push service, the avatar/widget either goes away or changes to a ‘unsubscribe’ option. That isn’t happening, it appears as if I haven’t tried to subscribe at all. In addition, I know both sites have sent out push notices since I tried to subscribe on dektop, as I received them through the Brave app on Android.
There seems to be one last setting in Brave desktop that is preventing the push subscription from completing and I cannot figure out what that setting would be.
If anyone can help me identify/resolve the problem, that would be much appreciated. I’m transitioning over from Comodo Dragon after their most recent update borked the search engine features, which is a deal breaker for me. So far, everything on Brave is setting up just fine but for the push notices. I hope this can be solved! Thank you in advance.
Version 1.22.71 Chromium: 89.0.4389.114 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Once you have successfully subscribed to a site’s push notifications through the page, that widget will either stop loading or will convert to a means of unsubscribing (and the text when you hover over it will confirm that is why it’s there).
Via Disqus - Disqus is the commenting system installed and if logged into a Disqus account, you can ‘follow’ the site’s forum page. But Disqus long since abandoned maintaining the dashboard feed of content from followed sites.
Private mode with extensions disabled/Shields on/notifications allowed: No change. Brave popup (second image below) says I’m blocking notifications which as you can see in the first image, I am not doing.
@Calista,
I think you may need to allow cross-site cookies for Disqus and sites using this particular type of push notification. Test on Disqus by going to the site, opening the Shields panel (lion icon in the address bar), and changing the cookies setting to All cookies allowed.
I think enabling All Cookies Allowed, clearing the cache and restarting the browser did the trick. Just went back to the Chat Shack and push notifications are now successfully subscribed to, including receiving the initial welcome push.
Thanks to you and justsomeone1 for your assistance in resolving this issue!