Chrome Will Automatically Disable Web Notifications You Don't Care About (theverge.com)
(Friday October 10, 2025 @05:22PM (msmash)
from the serenity-now dept.)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/10/1732255/chrome-will-automatically-disable-web-notifications-you-dont-care-about
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/798122/google-chrome-website-notifications-disable-feature
Google is introducing a new Chrome browser feature for Android and desktop users that automatically [1]turns off notifications for websites that you're already ignoring . From a report:
> Chrome's Safety Check feature already provides similar functionality for camera access and location tracking permissions.
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> This new auto-revocation feature builds on a similar Android feature that already makes it easier for Chrome users to unsubscribe from website notifications they don't care about with a single tap. The feature doesn't revoke notifications for any web apps installed on the device, and permissions will only be disabled for sites that send a lot of notifications that users rarely engage with. Less than one percent of all web notifications in Chrome currently receive any interaction from users, according to Google, often making them more distracting than helpful.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/798122/google-chrome-website-notifications-disable-feature
> Chrome's Safety Check feature already provides similar functionality for camera access and location tracking permissions.
>
> This new auto-revocation feature builds on a similar Android feature that already makes it easier for Chrome users to unsubscribe from website notifications they don't care about with a single tap. The feature doesn't revoke notifications for any web apps installed on the device, and permissions will only be disabled for sites that send a lot of notifications that users rarely engage with. Less than one percent of all web notifications in Chrome currently receive any interaction from users, according to Google, often making them more distracting than helpful.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/798122/google-chrome-website-notifications-disable-feature
Soooooo... (Score:2)
by SmaryJerry ( 2759091 )
It is disabling all web notifications?
I use Chrome! (Score:2)
by TheMiddleRoad ( 1153113 )
Sometimes, for when a site doesn't work with adblockers or I actually want cashback tracking. Otherwise, I use Firefox.
Don't use them so... (Score:2)
by Fly Swatter ( 30498 )
Keep them disabled, hell rip out the feature. I can see how they could be useful, but it looks more like a spam feature to me.
Pro tip: disable the feature (Score:2)
by Tschaine ( 10502969 )
In chrome and edge, you can prevent sites from even asking for permission to send notifications.
This should have been the default, as Google's own usage data shows.
for the 6 people that still use Chrome (Score:1)
Does anyone really care about this browser anymore? It's so intermingled with the advertising and tracking and surveillance economy that most people who have more than 1/2 a brain have run away screaming.
Re: (Score:3)
> Does anyone really care about this browser anymore? It's so intermingled with the advertising and tracking and surveillance economy that most people who have more than 1/2 a brain have run away screaming.
That may be so. The most recent figures, however, reveal that about 80% of visits to web sites through browsers are done using this particular browser.