‘This website wants to know your location’, or ‘This website wants to send you notifications’. There is a good chance that these pop-ups are flying around your ears. Not very privacy-friendly, and also rather annoying. In browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari you can turn off these types of notifications. Here’s how, and why you might not want it after all.
Even if you have closed your Google account or Microsoft profile, location data is quite useful to share at regular intervals. For navigation apps, for example, the CoronaMelder, or apps like Tinder. Push notifications from your favorite websites can also be interesting. But that every website keeps asking whether your location can be read with every visit? I’d rather not. Turning it off is a matter of diving into the settings.
Chrome
In Chrome, go to the menu with the three dots at the top right of your browser, and click Settings. Go under the heading Privacy & Security to Site Settings, and scroll to the heading rights. Here you can Location click on Don’t allow sites to see your location, or below notifications on Do not allow sites to send notifications. In both cases, any function related to location and notifications, respectively, will be turned off, including the pop-up you keep seeing. Incidentally, you can restrict the use of your camera and microphone in the same way.
Firefox
Firefox works in a similar way. Go to via the hamburger menu at the top right Settings and then to Privacy & Security. A little down you will find the cup Permissions, where you can use the button Settings… below Location and notifications can choose Block new requests to access your location or Block new requests to allow notifications. Do you already have a long list? Then immediately click on Delete all websites. You can also handle your camera and microphone in the same way in Firefox.
Edge
Edge actually works the same. Via the menu at the top right you go to Settings > Cookies and site permissions. Location and notifications are set to ‘Ask first’ by default (and Camera and Microphone too for that matter). Click on an item and turn off the slider, and you will no longer be disturbed with requests.
Safari
Apple software usually works a little differently, but here too it’s a matter of a few simple steps. Open Safari, go through Safari top left to Preferences and click on the tab Websites. Among the items Location and notifications you can choose . in the dropdown at the bottom right To block.
Sure?
Think carefully before you adjust the settings so rigorously. Your location settings in particular can sometimes be useful – think of Google Maps or when looking for a specific store nearby. Some websites, such as meal delivery websites, don’t work at all without location data. However, if you mainly use those websites on your phone, you can disable browser popups without any problems.
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