Google is currently working on a feature in Chrome Browser to reduce the number of unwanted notifications. The company wants to do this by blocking notifications from websites it sees as harmful and unwanted.
What kind of notifications?
Maybe you know it? You visit a website and after about two seconds a pop-up message appears. A notification that says, for example: ”Would you like to receive notifications and notifications from us?”. As soon as you then click on ‘allow’ or ‘yes please!’ click, your web browser is regularly pinned with the news from that website. This can be useful and interesting, but there are also many websites that spread spam through these pop-up notifications. Google now wants to ban these notifications and websites.
Revoke consent
According to a new code change, Chrome will soon be able to automatically remove a website’s permission to send pop-up notifications. Chrome must also detect future attempts of such a website in order to immediately block it again. This reports 9to5Google† In addition, if you accidentally turn on a pop-up notification from an unwanted and/or malicious website, Chrome will kick in and stop the notifications for you. At the moment there is already a similar feature, but currently Chrome is trying to convince you not to turn on notifications from certain websites. With the new change, Google itself makes the decision for you by blocking the malicious website itself.
Google will only block notifications from websites that they consider to be harmful or unwanted. This is nice, because it reduces the chance that we receive spam. On the other hand, there are also people who doubt the new change of Chrome. This is because Google will now determine for us what is harmful or undesirable. Google will therefore make its own decision about which websites are allowed to send notifications and will therefore assume the role of supervisor and moderator. However, according to Google, this fits within the “Developer Terms of Service” and in addition, according to Google, it is the need to protect Chrome users from spam in the browser. In addition, we have been relying on similar features with spam filters in our emails for several years, for example.
Google is hard at work developing this feature, it could be several months before it’s fully available.
– Thanks for information from Androidworld. Source