Chrome Will Automatically Disable Web Notifications You Don’t Care About

Google is introducing a caller Chrome browser characteristic for Android and desktop users that automatically turns disconnected notifications for websites that you’re already ignoring. Chrome’s Safety Check feature already provides akin functionality for camera entree and location search permissions.

This caller auto-revocation characteristic builds connected a similar Android feature that already makes it easier for Chrome users to unsubscribe from website notifications they don’t attraction astir pinch a azygous tap. The characteristic doesn’t revoke notifications for immoderate web apps installed connected nan device, and permissions will only beryllium abnormal for sites that nonstop a batch of notifications that users seldom prosecute with. Less than 1 percent of each web notifications successful Chrome presently person immoderate relationship from users, according to Google, often making them much distracting than helpful.

“We’ve already been testing this feature. Our trial results show a important simplification successful notification overload pinch only a minimal alteration successful full notification clicks,” Google said successful its announcement. “Our experiments besides bespeak that websites that nonstop a little measurement of notifications are really seeing an summation successful clicks.”

Chrome users tin take to move disconnected nan auto-revocation characteristic entirely, aliases tin sphere circumstantial tract notifications by either visiting nan website to alteration them again aliases re-granting permissions via nan Safety Check feature. We person asked Google to corroborate erstwhile this characteristic will beryllium rolling out.