Security News > 2021 > February > Microsoft Edge is crowdsourcing whether to show notification prompts
Microsoft is now using crowdsourcing to determine whether to show a site's website subscription dialog prompt in the Microsoft Edge web browser.
After Microsoft rolled out their quiet notification requests feature in Edge 84, they noticed a significant drop in undesired notifications dialog prompts, but at the same time, legitimate sites' notifications were affected as well.
This week, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Edge 88 is now using a feature called adaptive notification requests that uses crowdsourcing to determine whether a site's notification dialog is displayed.
If most users click no to a site's subscription requests, Edge will show the quiet notification dialog.
"Because most people block notifications on this site, we've automatically blocked notifications," reads Microsoft Edge's new notification dialog.
This feature is now live in Microsoft Edge 88 and will only be enabled if Settings > Cookies and site permissions > Notifications > Quiet notification requests is disabled.