Security News > 2020 > October > Google Chrome now blocks site notifications with abusive content

Starting with Chrome 86, Google is automatically hiding website notification spam on sites showing a pattern of sending abusive notification content to visitors.

"Our goal with these changes is to improve the experience for Chrome users and to reduce the incentive for abusive sites to misuse the web notifications feature."

Google is further improving the Chrome web notification ecosystem's quality by focusing on notification content and hiding alerts on sites with a history of sending alert spam with abusive content that delivers malware or helps harvest user credentials.

Website owners can use the Search Console Abusive Notifications Report to see if Google's web crawler has detected any abusive notification behavior on their sites.

"In an upcoming release, Chrome will revert the notification permission status from 'granted' to 'default' for abusive origins, preventing further notifications unless the user returns to the abusive origin and re-enables notifications," McLachlan added.

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