Do you hate website notifications? Who doesn’t? Though you can block all of them from Settings in Chrome browser, by doing so, you’ll miss notifications from your favorite sites. An experimental feature “Quieter notification permission prompts” is now available in Chrome and Chromium Edge browsers (Canary channel), which when enabled, without showing the usual dialog, silently blocks the website notification requests and lets you get the notification from the sites that matter to you.
These days, whenever you visit a website, the site seeks your permission to show a notification, these are like pop-up ads, requires user interaction to dismiss or accept. FYI, you can block all by visiting chrome://settings/content/notifications page.
The problem with this method is you won’t get a visual indicator in the address bar when notifications are blocked, but Chrome and Edge Chromium shows one if you enable “Quieter notification permission prompts” flag at chrome://flags/#quiet-notification-prompts page.
The flag apart from the regular icon offers options to show a static and Animated icons in the address bar when notifications are blocked in Chrome browser.
With the feature enabled, Chrome hides all notifications without showing the permission prompts, clicking the icon in the address bar displays a dialog with message “Notifications are automatically blocked for all sites except ones you allow” and offers “Allow for this site” option, select the option to always receive notifications from that website.
Do know, Mozilla already experimenting with ways to address website Notification Spam in the Firefox browser, now the Chromium team has started to work on to put an end to website notification requests.
