As others point out, promotional pushes are allowed on iOS.
A site can refuse to give you content if you don't allow push notifications but in practice that doesn't happen because the incentive of the site is to have more traffic. Android has had this capability for an eon and I have never experienced a site try to force you to accept push notifications.
I have also never observed a site try to use push notifications as a "verification" method. Do you have an example of this in the wild?
And you can always control your allowance of push notifications after the fact, either at the moment you receive the offending notification or from the site settings. Android specifically has a fantastic way to do this without even leaving your notification area. Not sure how Apple's system works in that regard.
Plenty of sites lock you out if you have an ad blocker, here we're talking about locking you out because you have not granted them permission to send you web push notifications...
The argument IIRC is sites want eyeballs and wouldn’t block content if you don’t grant notification permissions.
Blocking for Ad/trackers is not so dissimilar
They don’t make money if they don’t have ads and trackers. Push notification is just to get you to visit more often. Why would they want to serve the site to freeloaders
A site can refuse to give you content if you don't allow push notifications but in practice that doesn't happen because the incentive of the site is to have more traffic. Android has had this capability for an eon and I have never experienced a site try to force you to accept push notifications.
I have also never observed a site try to use push notifications as a "verification" method. Do you have an example of this in the wild?
And you can always control your allowance of push notifications after the fact, either at the moment you receive the offending notification or from the site settings. Android specifically has a fantastic way to do this without even leaving your notification area. Not sure how Apple's system works in that regard.