Google To Enable the Chrome Anti-Notification Spam System in July 2020

Google announced this week plans to enable its new anti-notification spam system in Chrome over the summer, with the release of Chrome 84, on July 12, 2020. From a report: Known internally as the "quieter notification permission UI," this Chrome component works by blocking sites from showing notification requests, which are hidden under an icon in the Chrome URL bar (on desktop) or under a toolbar (on mobile). Google first announced the "quieter notification permission UI" in January, and shipped it in February, in Chrome 80, in a limited, user opt-in fashion. But in a blog post, Google said the new UI and its ability to detect spammy notification popups has been improved and will roll out enabled by default for all users in July, with the release of Chrome 84.

Wonder if that includes everyones

[oldgraybeard]

Update Available Install Now spam

Just my 2 cents ;)

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[Z00L00K]

I agree - the title and text body is totally confusing. Will I get enforced spam when using Chrome and Gmail?

What would really be useful

[Alain Williams]

in Chrome would be something that, in search engine results, hides paid for adverts that appear to be genuine best rank search results.

Just scrap it

[smallmj]

I'd say just scrap the entire notification feature. Is it ever used for good?It sure is used for a LOT of evil.

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[NateFromMich]

I'd say just scrap the entire notification feature. Is it ever used for good?It sure is used for a LOT of evil.

Well, you can use it for a webmail client to let you know that you've got a new email, or a message system like Slack.
I can think of no other use.

Occasionally

[raymorris]

I have maybe 4 sites set to allow notifications.
Out of the 5,000 that have asked for permission.

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[molarmass192]

Either scrap it or reimplement it so notifications have to be signed by a gatekeeper vended cert like Apple or Google. The current implementation where the service worker can use any self-signed cert is pure abuse cheddar. When you the sword of cert revocation is hanging over your business, it (hopefully?) tamps down abuse.

Just turn it off by default

[kriston]

Just turn it off by default. Nobody wanted this feature except for desktop notifications from an email, calendar and chat service.

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[_merlin]

The irony is that this is something Google introduced themselves in their effort to usurp local applications with web-based stuff like gmail, etc.

New?

[idontusenumbers]

How do they get off calling this new? Notifications were a feature Chrome introduced and then sites leveraged the designed and expected UX that google created to annoy users. This annoyance was the predictable and expected outcome of the design Google originally came up with. Fixing the annoyance should not be considered a 'new feature', it should be considered a fix to the obviously flawed implementation they originally came up with. Better late than never I suppose.

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[Luthair]

It has only been a relatively recent development that sites have been abusing it, many blogs instantly prompt for notifications the first time you visit the page.

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[idontusenumbers]

It's felt like years to me, until I relatively recently discovered the global block that already exists.

Engineer naming

[shadow_slicer]

I can guarantee that this feature is "not known internally as the quieter notification permission UI". Given the nature of engineers everywhere it probably has a name like Snorlax or silencio and the engineers quietly giggle as they discuss a trix of the weather in zork's borg cluster

(No, not that zork, the one for kids. No, the one that uses voice recognition. No, not the distributed voice recognition library, it's a service. No, not the zork that was cancelled last fall, the one that started 2 years ago..

So a system for spamming and against notifications

[BAReFO0t]

I must literally guess you meant the exact opposite of that. Because the words don't fucking say any of it.

Jesus fucking Christ, English! You're like the iOS of languages! Simplified to uselessness! Upgrade to compound words already! This is ridiculous!

Engaging the 'shut the fuck' up mode

[Malays2 bowman]

What notifications do most websites have can be of any possible value to me. Unless it is some life or death emergency, which hopefully I would get via SMS or radio, it's just more annoying crap.

Speaking of which, I long for the day when program windows and most applications were mostly static in regards to their displays. Now there is all of this zooming, moving, sliding crap that not only gets real annoying to the point of adding stress, but I begin to feel a little ill sometimes.

I am not prone to seizure