- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Notifications in Chrome are a useful feature to keep up with updates from your favorite sites. However, we know that some notifications may be spammy or even deceptive. We’ve received reports of notifications diverting you to download suspicious software, tricking you into sharing personal information or asking you to make purchases on potentially fraudulent online store fronts.
To defend against these threats, Chrome is launching warnings of unwanted notifications on Android. This new feature uses on-device machine learning to detect and warn you about potentially deceptive or spammy notifications, giving you an extra level of control over the information displayed on your device.
When a notification is flagged by Chrome, you’ll see the name of the site sending the notification, a message warning that the contents of the notification are potentially deceptive or spammy, and the option to either unsubscribe from the site or see the flagged content…
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Is it so hard to only allow notifications for specific sites? What?
Honestly, I have never ever found a website with notifications worth getting. So I just turn them off completely.
Ooh, wow. That’s shiny! Thanks for posting this! ❤️
Maybe I’d want that for email, but frankly I check that often enough that even that isnt needed. I consider phone notification management to be a chore, why would I ever want to add that chore to my desktop?
Same, most apps on my phone (including Fenix) don’t have notification perms anyway
They have a half-assed solution without a problem. The next logical step is to create a problem.
Upon which, logically, users just stop using Chrome?
That’s wishful thinking. Users don’t give a shit as long as the problem goes away without having to lift a finger.
Oh, let me wish 🙂
The UI is not intuitive and I never allow notifications for websites. But, I guess it is for the regular user.
You can also switch the browser to a non-Google alternative. Win-win.
burning forests just so that the actual brainless users don’t have to think about whether to decline the notification permission! good job google!
An app named filterbox can be used if you need something for all your notifications.
