Q: I’m constantly getting pop-up notifications from all kinds of websites on my computer. Does this mean that I have a virus? A: The currency of the Internet is often referred to as “eyeballs” because ...

QUESTION: I’m constantly getting pop-up notifications from all kinds of websites on my computer. Does this mean that I have a virus? ANSWER: The currency of the internet is often referred to as ...

Notifications, in Google Chrome or elsewhere, can be among the most useful of things. But that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re always desirable. Whether because they’re intrusive or interrupting, ...

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Every time I set up a new Android phone or Android tablet, iPhone or iPad, Windows or Mac computer with Chrome as the main browser, there’s one setting I immediately and invariably change. This is a ...

Following in Mozilla's footsteps, Google announced today plans to hide notification popup prompts inside Chrome starting next month, February 2020. According to a blog post published today, Google ...

In a move to fight spam and improve the health of the web, Firefox will hide those annoying notification popups by default starting next year, with the release of Firefox 72, in January 2020, ZDNet ...

I shouldn't have to dig into developer options.