# Change notification level with a link

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-notification-level-with-a-link/57784>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** notifications\
**Created:** [February 22, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-notification-level-with-a-link/57784 "2017-02-22T12:59:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-notification-level-with-a-link/57784/4 "2017-04-28T23:50:42Z")

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“With a link” is a non-starter, it has to be confirmed with an explicit user action like clicking or tapping on a button. Otherwise you could trick people with active cookies on that URL into setting whatever notification level you wanted in a variety of ways.

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