Nowadays every other goddamn internet site does it . You ’re browse the web , open a tab here , click a link there , and wham : Watchcartoons wants to 🔔 ! show notifications . YouTube wants to 🔔 ! show notifications . Facebook yearn to — it must — 🔔 ! show notifications . So what do you do ? You block them , that ’s what you do . God forbid you accidentally chatter “ Allow . ”
But no matter your choice , after a quick click , the little pop - up windowpane disappears like it was never really there . You draw a blank about it . And it beams your alternative deep into a dense forest of menus , place setting , buttons , and switches inside your heavy - set Chrome browser app . Not just . speculative .
But rather of boringly clicking Block , what if you could just avoid the notification in all ?
Chrome has supported push notification sinceApril 2015 — other web browser do , too . And maybe some people out there actually enjoy incur notification from some website , while manually blocking others . But if you ’ve grow tired of the increasingly common phenomenon — the play , the despair , the misguided optimism that you ’d in reality click yes — and wondered why your pop - up context or ad blocker has n’t mistreat in to save you , we have a solution for you .
Here ’s a quick guide to taking back ascendence of Chrome .
Click Chrome > Preferences , or just paste chrome://preferences / mental object / notifications into your browser app to skip steps 2 - 4 .
Scroll down and get through Advanced
tick contentedness setting
Click notification
Next to the Ask before sending ( recommend ) text , tick the on/off switch button . It should now say Blocked .
Chrome made this set more difficult to find than it should ’ve been . And by labeling the toggle button as it did , the isolated setting description feels more like conjuration than bad UX — almost advisedly puzzling . defective , Google . But hey , at least now you ’re complimentary .
So go forth , untested mortal . Breathe . Trot , skip , and betray about the World Wide Web in blessed peace .
[ How To Geek ]
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