Google is working on a new notification permission interface which will crack down on annoying website notification permission requests.<\/p>\n
“Immediately after the Chrome 80 release, users will be able to opt-in to the new UI manually in Settings,” said Google in a blog post<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Through the Settings menu, users will be able to enable the new prompts manually or disable the feature completely.<\/p>\n To enable the feature, users must navigate to “Sites can ask to send notifications” in:<\/p>\n In addition, the quieter UI will be automatically enabled for users under two conditions:<\/p>\n “The automated enrollment will be enabled gradually after the release while we gather user and developer feedback,” Google added.<\/p>\n Google said it plans to implement additional measures later in 2020 that will punish websites which abuse web notifications for advertising, malware, or other deceptive purposes.<\/p>\n The company also recommended that web developers test their websites to ensure that the quieter UI works.<\/p>\n “We recommend that web developers test their site\u2019s permission request flow with the quieter notification permission UI, by enabling it manually in chrome:\/\/settings\/content\/notifications,” said Google.<\/p>\n “The feature is being rolled out gradually to Canary, Dev, and Beta channels, and can be force-enabled in chrome:\/\/flags\/#quiet-notification-prompts in Chrome 80 and later.”<\/p>\n Google will introduce a quieter notification permission interface which will crack down on annoying notification permission requests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":217834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[62494,37194,1137,58748],"class_list":["post-334442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-chrome-80","tag-chromium","tag-google-chrome","tag-notifications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334454,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334442\/revisions\/334454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Testing the feature<\/h3>\n
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