My parents are in the same boat. Revoking it assumes the user even has a mental model of what a notification is. That is: Something that you can opt out of or even necessarily that they gave permission in the first place. I suppose it's viewed a bit like receiving junk mail or advertisements on TV. That might seem absurd on the face of it like of course it's your device but not everyone is necessarily aware that they even have any agency (or are interested in learning yet more "computer nonsense")
I'm being a bit over the top here but I consider it much the same problem as how you might use a car without understanding any of how it works. In the same way, plenty of people own mobile phones without any understanding of cause and effect.
I'm pretty sure my parents don't even "see" permission prompts, they just sort of have this "thing" in the way of the "screen" and tap at it to go away rather than y'know, some sort of two way consent dialogue.
> My parents are in the same boat. Revoking it assumes the user even has a mental model of what a notification is. That is: Something that you can opt out of or even necessarily that they gave permission in the first place.
My feeling is that if a user doesn't know how to disable a permission, then they were not giving informed consent about enabling the permission. Being able to turn on a permission is an imperfect but ultimately better indicator that they likely know what the permission is (it's not completely bullet-proof, but it's better).
Clicking "yes" just means that they clicked "yes", it doesn't mean anything more than that.
I might be misremembering, but I think android (at least Pixels) have a prompt to ask if you want to get rid of an app's notification if it pops up too often, and/or show you the current settings for the notification for review.
I wonder if a similar approach could be used: just as users might half blindly push "OK" on a request for notification permission, it could be counter balanced by a check on new notifications in the kind of "Do you want to stop this app from sending you more of these messages ? you can always change your mind in the XXXXX screen <link to said screen>"
To be honest, I don't wish for more people to have to comb their notifications screens and have a deep understanding of what's happening. I'd prefer the OS to better surface to the user they just need to push a button to get rid of the crap.
I'm being a bit over the top here but I consider it much the same problem as how you might use a car without understanding any of how it works. In the same way, plenty of people own mobile phones without any understanding of cause and effect.
I'm pretty sure my parents don't even "see" permission prompts, they just sort of have this "thing" in the way of the "screen" and tap at it to go away rather than y'know, some sort of two way consent dialogue.