Chrome will automatically block notifications from the most invasive sites

Crucial and delight, Chrome notifications can be a useful tool to not miss the most interesting news of your favorite web pages or a boring reminder of when we were wrong to give permissions to send them to some too invasive website. To help us get rid of the latter, it seems that Google’s browser will soon be able to recognize and automatically block notifications considered spam.

According to a change made to the Chrome code, taken up by 9to5google, the browser will now be able to independently recognize any websites that abuse the permission to send notifications, prevent them from being displayed and prevent this from happening in the future. All without the user noticing anything.

join us on telegram

There are not yet all the details relating to the selection criteria to determine which and how many notifications are considered so annoying as to trigger this kind of measure, but it is reasonable to think that it applies to the most extreme cases.

Also because Chrome already has some tools that have been developed for this purpose: from version 86 of the software, for example, when a site tries to send a link to pages considered dangerous or spam, a window appears that warns us of the potential danger and it asks us if we want the message to be shown or if we prefer it to continue to be hidden.

A tool, the one that will arrive in the future, is powerful but that will have to be refined and used wisely in order not to harm anyone. Especially considering the fact that Chrome is by far the most used browser in the world, three times more popular than the second in the ranking, Safari.

Leave a Comment