Google Chrome To Hide Notification Spam Starting February 2020

'Following in Mozilla's footsteps, Google announced today plans to
hide notification popup prompts inside Chrome starting next month,
February 2020. ZDNet reports:

According to a blog post published today, Google plans to roll out a
"quieter notification permission UI that reduces the interruptiveness
of notification permission requests." The change is scheduled for
Google Chrome 80, scheduled for release on February 4, next month.

Starting with Chrome 80 next month, Google's browser will also block
most notification popups by default, and show an icon in the URL bar,
similar to Firefox. When Chrome 80 launches next month, a new option
will be added in the Chrome settings section that allows users to
enroll in the new "quieter notification UI." Users can enable this
option as soon as Chrome 80 is released, or they can wait for Google
to enable it by default as the feature rolls out to the wider Chrome
userbase in the following weeks. According to Google, the new feature
works by hiding notification requests for Chrome users who regularly
dismiss notification prompts. Furthermore, Chrome will also
automatically block notification prompts on sites where users rarely
accept notifications. '

-- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/20/01/08/0632203

Nice to see the "[f]ollowing in Mozilla's footsteps". :-)

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
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