Nowadays, almost every website has the ability to provide users with desktop notifications, but these notifications can be annoying, especially when you are in the middle of something important.
You may like notifications from a particular website, but if they suddenly start to attack you with that notification, it’s time to turn them off.
These tricks can also be used to manage desktop notifications in case you accidentally give the website permission to push notifications to your browser and want to revoke that permission or want to grant access. into the website.
You can control notification settings for all the websites you visit on your Chrome browser, or manage notification settings for each site individually.
For example, at work, you want your Slack to push notifications to the top, but you don’t want your personal social media accounts to do the same.
How to manage/block notifications for individual sites
We will explain later in this article how you can grant or block all websites notification access to your browser, but if you are looking to revoke or grant push notifications of a particular website, this is how you need to do it.
Open the website for which you want to manage notifications and tap the ‘i’ or ‘Secure’ icon on the left side of the address bar.
Scroll down in the dropdown where you see ‘Notifications’. Hovering over it will give you the following three options:
- Use generic defaults (Ask)
- Always allow on this site
- Always block on this site
Choose the option to your liking — the last one if you want to block notifications — and you’re good to go.
How to manage/block notifications for all sites
If you don’t want any kind of notifications from any website or want to receive desktop notifications without the website asking for your permission, this is where you need to go.
Go to Chrome settings and scroll down to find advanced settings’. Click on it and scroll down further until you come across the ‘Privacy’ heading.
You will find ‘Content Settings’ below, click on it and a new window will pop up.
Scroll down in the new window to find the heading ‘Notifications’. You will be presented with three options that define how notifications are sent to you.
- Allow all sites to show notifications
- Ask when a site wants to show notifications (recommended)
- Do not allow any website to display the message
Choose depending on your preference to block or grant access and you’re good to go.
In case you want to manage notifications in Chrome browser on your smartphone, then read this post.
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