Google makes requests for push notifications from sites in Chrome less present

Google browser Chrome will no longer bother users with requests to allow push notifications. If users wish, Chrome will block the request and only show an icon in the address bar that the option for notifications is present on the site.

On desktops, the browser places an icon and a short explanation in the address bar, on smartphones a bar appears at the bottom with the message that Chrome has blocked a notification request, Google reports. The silent notification appears on sites where Google knows that few users turn on notifications and Google allows users who rarely allow notifications to see the silent notifications. In other cases, users will continue to see the popup.

The reason for the change is that many sites show the request on first use, while users are often only on the site for a few seconds and therefore do not know at all whether notifications from that site will be useful. In addition, those requests often interrupt what users were doing on the site. In addition, there are sites that abuse push notifications for advertisements, for example.

Google will introduce the interface later this year in Chrome 80. It should be released in a stable version next month. The search giant asks developers to see if their site works well with the silent requests. Chrome isn’t the only browser to make push notification requests less prominent. Mozilla Firefox does the same.