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A while ago, I accidentally allowed WhatsApp Web (web.whatsapp.com) to send desktop notifications. I tried to revoke that permission via the Preferences (as also described in this answer):

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but to no avail:

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What can I do, other than disabling notifications for Safari in the System Preferences, which I don't want (I have other websites I might need them for)?

This happens on a 2020 MacBook Pro (M1, 13") running macOS 12.3.1, and Safari 15.4

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    Can you just select on the "web.whatsapp.com" line and click the remove button below?
    – AVelj
    Commented May 22, 2022 at 5:03
  • @AVelj yes - not sure how I missed that, I guess it's less discoverable than the dropdown and it ... doesn't really make sense to have two of these similar options? Thanks anyway!
    – Glorfindel ♦
    Commented May 22, 2022 at 17:21
  • no stress! I'm not sure why it kept sending you notifications when you disabled it in Safari's website settings, but all I can think of is that you didn't restart Safari/macOS after disabling notifications for the website, or the relevant plist file hadn't been recompiled after you changed the notification setting for the website at the time. I can't seem to find the relevant plist file on my end (probably because I have not allowed notifications for individual websites), but I suspect that's where it probably went wrong. It's a simple fix generally with erroneous plist files :)
    – AVelj
    Commented May 23, 2022 at 1:18
  • P.S. If you found my original comment above useful, you can upvote it, which gives me some brownie points. I hope you have a great day! :)
    – AVelj
    Commented May 23, 2022 at 1:20
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    @AVelj I can upvote your comment, but that doesn't give reputation points (it only helps for the Pundit badge). I can't accept my own answer yet; because it's a self-answer, that can only be done 48 hours after posting the question.
    – Glorfindel ♦
    Commented May 23, 2022 at 6:36

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As user @AVelj mentioned, it's possible to select the row and click the Remove button at the bottom:

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That did the trick: when I reload the page, I see a reminder of WhatsApp to enable notifications, which is as expected:

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  • Thanks for the acknowledgement. You should mark your question as answered now :)
    – AVelj
    Commented May 23, 2022 at 1:05

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