Google announced today that it plans to activate its new system spam notifications in Chrome over the summer with the release of Chrome 84 on July 12, 2020.
Internally the feature is known as “quieter notification permission UI,” and is a new Chrome feature that will block appearance requests for notifications.
Google first announces "quieter notification permission UI," in January and added it in February on Chrome 80, but to a limited extent.
However, in a suspension In its blog today, Google announced that the new pop-up detection feature has been upgraded and will be released by default for all users in July, with the release of Chrome 84.
According to Google, Chrome will begin blocking and hiding all pop-up notification windows designed to mislead, deceive, or force users to allow notifications.
That is:
- Αιτήματα ειδοποιήσεων που αναγκάζουν τους χρήστες να επιτρέπουν τις ειδοποιήσεις προκειμένου να αποκτήσουν πρόσβαση στο content of the website
- Alert requests that display misleading prompts
- Pop-up alerts that look like chat messages, or system alerts
- Websites that have just received approval to display notifications in the browser, use the notifications to steal personal information or trick users into sharing personal information
- Websites that have just received approval to display notifications use it to promote, host, or link to malicious or unwanted software.
Websites that use the notification API properly will be allowed to display notifications as long as they do not annoy users or use dark practices.
Webmasters who have registered their domain in Google's Search Console can check whether their site will be banned from July through the Search Console dashboard, in the new Report Abusive Notifications section Report).
