diff --git a/api/api/v1/push/subscription/index.post.ts b/api/api/v1/push/subscription/index.post.ts
index 6ae65f27..061cdd3f 100644
--- a/api/api/v1/push/subscription/index.post.ts
+++ b/api/api/v1/push/subscription/index.post.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import { apiRoute } from "@/api";
 import { auth, jsonOrForm } from "@/api";
 import { createRoute } from "@hono/zod-openapi";
 import { PushSubscription } from "@versia/kit/db";
-import { ApiError } from "~/classes/errors/api-error";
 import { WebPushSubscriptionInput } from "~/classes/schemas/pushsubscription";
 import { RolePermissions } from "~/drizzle/schema";
 
@@ -54,20 +53,15 @@ export default apiRoute((app) =>
                 data.alerts["admin.report"] &&
                 !user.hasPermission(RolePermissions.ManageReports)
             ) {
-                throw new ApiError(
-                    403,
-                    `You do not have the '${RolePermissions.ManageReports}' permission to receive report alerts`,
-                );
+                // This shouldn't throw an error in mastodon either
+                data.alerts["admin.report"] = false;
             }
 
             if (
                 data.alerts["admin.sign_up"] &&
                 !user.hasPermission(RolePermissions.ManageAccounts)
             ) {
-                throw new ApiError(
-                    403,
-                    `You do not have the '${RolePermissions.ManageAccounts}' permission to receive sign-up alerts`,
-                );
+                data.alerts["admin.sign_up"] = false;
             }
 
             await PushSubscription.clearAllOfToken(token);
diff --git a/api/api/v1/push/subscription/index.put.ts b/api/api/v1/push/subscription/index.put.ts
index d99c9199..96baedb9 100644
--- a/api/api/v1/push/subscription/index.put.ts
+++ b/api/api/v1/push/subscription/index.put.ts
@@ -61,20 +61,15 @@ export default apiRoute((app) =>
                 alerts["admin.report"] &&
                 !user.hasPermission(RolePermissions.ManageReports)
             ) {
-                throw new ApiError(
-                    403,
-                    `You do not have the '${RolePermissions.ManageReports}' permission to receive report alerts`,
-                );
+                // This shouldn't throw an error in mastodon either
+                alerts["admin.report"] = false;
             }
 
             if (
                 alerts["admin.sign_up"] &&
                 !user.hasPermission(RolePermissions.ManageAccounts)
             ) {
-                throw new ApiError(
-                    403,
-                    `You do not have the '${RolePermissions.ManageAccounts}' permission to receive sign-up alerts`,
-                );
+                alerts["admin.sign_up"] = false;
             }
 
             await ps.update({
diff --git a/api/api/v1/push/subscription/index.test.ts b/api/api/v1/push/subscription/index.test.ts
index dd2ec6e7..ad694d95 100644
--- a/api/api/v1/push/subscription/index.test.ts
+++ b/api/api/v1/push/subscription/index.test.ts
@@ -159,9 +159,11 @@ describe("/api/v1/push/subscriptions", () => {
                 }),
             });
 
-            expect(res.status).toBe(403);
+            expect(res.status).toBe(200);
             expect(await res.json()).toMatchObject({
-                error: expect.stringContaining("permission"),
+                alerts: {
+                    "admin.report": false,
+                },
             });
         });
 
@@ -235,9 +237,11 @@ describe("/api/v1/push/subscriptions", () => {
                 }),
             });
 
-            expect(res.status).toBe(403);
+            expect(res.status).toBe(200);
             expect(await res.json()).toMatchObject({
-                error: expect.stringContaining("permission"),
+                alerts: {
+                    "admin.report": false,
+                },
             });
         });
 
diff --git a/classes/schemas/pushsubscription.ts b/classes/schemas/pushsubscription.ts
index 5f1435fa..8bc92784 100644
--- a/classes/schemas/pushsubscription.ts
+++ b/classes/schemas/pushsubscription.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export const WebPushSubscriptionInput = z
                         example:
                             "MFkwEwYHKoZIzj0CAQYIKoZIzj0DAQcDQgAEoKCJeHCy69ywHcb3dAR/T8Sud5ljSFHJkuiR6it1ycqAjGTe5F1oZ0ef5QiMX/zdQ+d4jSKiO7RztIz+o/eGuQ==",
                     }),
-                    auth: z.string().base64().length(24).openapi({
+                    auth: z.string().base64().openapi({
                         description:
                             "Auth secret. Base64 encoded string of 16 bytes of random data.",
                         example: "u67u09PXZW4ncK9l9mAXkA==",