Chrome Will Automatically Disable Web Notifications You Don't Care About (theverge.com) 13
Google is introducing a new Chrome browser feature for Android and desktop users that automatically 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.
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.
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.
for the 6 people that still use Chrome (Score:1)
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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.
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My own observations of end-users in corporate environments show 2/3 to 3/4 are using Chrome, with the remainder using Edge, which is recommended by the company since the browser settings sync to their "Microsoft 365" account (wow I hate typing that).
Edge and Chrome come preinstalled in the corporate Windows image. Out of hundreds of laptops, I saw 2 where the user installed Firefox and 1 where they had Vivaldi or Brave.
Soooooo... (Score:2)
I use Chrome! (Score:1)
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)
Pro tip: disable the feature (Score:3)
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.
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You must be working for Google - that feature doesn't actually work. Then number of times I disabled that feature is almost equal to the number of times i reject a site to send notifications. "Would you like clickbait.com to send you desktop notification? You can later disable that". The person who originally implemented that feature should be subjcted to a struggle session on global TV.
Re: Pro tip: disable the feature (Score:2)
I've never worked for Google.
I turned it off in both browsers a long time ago, and haven't seen that permission request since.
I have no idea why it's broken for you, but I hope you're able to find a fix for it.
Isn't that all of them? (Score:2)
too many scary cookies (Score:1)
I don't use Chrome (Score:1)
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