The notification mechanism seems undoubtedly useful at first glance. It appeared in 2015, specifically in version 42 of Google Chrome. The principle is simple – a website offers you to subscribe to content updates, event creations, or receiving any other similar information and can send it to you at the right moment. But this feature is only useful with good intentions. Since about the fall of 2017, more and more people began to complain about completely irrelevant notifications with a lot of advertisements appearing in the bottom right corner of the browser window.
Since version 80 (early 2020), Chrome developers have implemented an algorithm that significantly limits subscription requests for notifications. Now, there will be no distracting windows in different parts of the browser window, only a special icon will appear in the right corner of the address bar in the form of a bell. If you ignore the offer once, Chrome will block it next time.
Notification Settings
Notifications are buried quite deep in the settings of Chrome for Windows. You can open this section in one of two ways:
menu → “Settings” → “Notifications” → at the very bottom of the window “Additional settings in the app”
menu → “Settings” → “Site settings” → “Notifications”
Current Site
Only the Windows version of Chrome allows you to set permission for subscription notifications from any site. To do this:
Open any page of the site you need
In the left corner of the address bar, click on the “View site information” icon
Select “Site settings” from the context menu
All you need to do is find the “Notifications” line and choose one of the three options – Ask, Block, or Allow
How to Disable Notifications
As of the last edit of this article, Chrome’s notification settings in Windows are close to perfect. We would advise changing something only if you are firmly sure that you want to completely disable this feature in the browser.
