Nowadays, everyone wants your attention, even your web browser. Websites may transmit their material straight to your browser through a push notification, just as they can post items on social media. It’s simple to unknowingly sign up for these notifications, but there are methods to stop them or make them less intrusive. Here’s everything you need to know to avoid these pop-ups. How to Turn Off Web Push Notifications
Have you ever been surfing the web and interrupted by a message promising “the latest news and updates” from your site? When the site has a new story or deal that it thinks you’ll be interested in, a link will appear in the corner of your screen. This is referred to as a push notification.
There are occasional alerts when a website tries to use your location or request access to your camera or microphone. If you enable these alerts, you will get periodic ping notifications. These notifications can be helpful (in moderation), but if you’re not interested, they can quickly become obnoxious.
Disable Edge’s Notifications
Given that it is built on the same Chromium technology that runs Google’s browser, Microsoft’s Edge browser is quite similar to Chrome. First you need to navigate to select Settings.
Cookies and site permissions from the three dots menu in the top-right corner to control web notifications. You may manage access rights for the camera, microphone, location data, and alerts here.
Tap on Notifications
You first arrived here because alerts are set to Ask before sending by default. To completely deactivate notifications, turn off this setting. Turn on Quiet notification requests to stop pop-ups from interfering with your browsing.
If you choose quiet notifications, websites that make an effort to send out requests will show a bell icon in the URL bar. Click this symbol, select Manage or Allow for this site to receive notifications, and enter the Notifications tab in Settings.
Additionally, you may add specific websites to the Block or Allow lists by selecting the Add button and entering a URL. When you click the lock icon in the URL bar, you may also set permissions for a specific website, including notification preferences, by choosing Permissions for this site. There are three possible settings for permissions: Ask, Allow, and Block.
Disable Chrome’s Notifications
Chrome has notifications enabled by default. This implies that websites will display pop-up messages requesting you to accept alerts. You may, however, turn them off altogether or mute them for a less intrusive experience. To manage these notifications, go to Settings.
Privacy and security
Site Settings
Choose Don’t allow sites to send notifications if you want to disable these notifications altogether. This will disable all push notifications from your browser, including applications like Gmail and Google Meet connected to productivity.
If getting no alerts seems like a problem, you may silence them by selecting the use quieter messaging option. This will maintain watches while lessening their intrusiveness. In the URL bar, a bell icon will show up when a message has been banned. To enable alerts for the current webpage, click the symbol.
You may also disable notifications for a selected set of websites, ban all websites, or add a select number to your allow list. Click the Add button for the prohibited area and input the website URL if there are any particular sites you wish to block if they have annoying notifications. You may select Block by selecting the three dots symbol next to any websites you may already have authorized access to.
Does everything feel overly complicated? Skip it and browse in Incognito Mode instead, which by default, disables notifications.
Disable Firefox’s Notifications
Mozilla has addressed this issue in Firefox by only allowing websites to request your permission if you have already interacted with the page in some manner. Mozilla knows people dislike pop-up notifications(Opens in a new window). Otherwise, you may enable or disable alerts using a little speech bubble notice in the address bar. Additionally, managing notifications may be done in several ways.
By selecting Connection secure > More Information in the Page Info box after clicking the lock icon in the URL bar, you may manage alerts for a specific website. Select Send notifications by selecting the Permissions option and scrolling down. Uncheck Use Default, then choose Always Ask, Allow, or Block if you want to modify the notification settings.
Looking for another way?
A far more straightforward method is to open the hamburger menu on the browser, select Settings.
Privacy & Security, and then scroll down to the Permissions section. You may allow websites access to your location, computer peripherals, and notification settings here.
Until Firefox restarts, you may disable notifications by selecting the option Pause notifications.
Next to Notifications, select Settings to access something more permanent. The websites you have previously banned or authorized straight from notification prompts will be included in a menu. Use the drop-down option to toggle between Blocked and Allowed for any things on the list that you want to edit, or you may altogether remove them from the list.
To prevent future requests for alerts, choose Block new requests seeking to accept notifications at the bottom of the menu.
