Google is cutting off noisy websites in Chrome -- here's how it works

When you visit a new website in a browser like Google Chrome, you may see a small prompt near the address bar asking whether you want to allow notifications. It’s easy enough to click “allow” in the moment, but not always easy to find where to turn those notifications off again later. For many users, the result is an endless stream of alerts, banners, and prompts that make browsing far noisier than it needs be. Chrome’s latest experiment aims to cut this overload with a feature that automatically removes notification permissions for sites that users no longer engage with. SEE… [Continue Reading]