Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome
blog.chromium.org
Notifications in Chrome are a useful feature to keep up with updates from your favorite sites. However, we know that some notifications may...
  • besselj@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    You guys actually allow websites to send you notifications? Pretty much every site that has asked me to allow notifications is one that I wouldn’t want notifications from.

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      Yeah, I am an IT guy and at our office there have been two users in the last year who has somehow enabled notifications from what is clearly a spam site which keeps spamming notifications as if it were McAffee Anti-Virus.

      I need to get a policy pushed out to disable any requests for new notifications from websites…

      • muusemuuse@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Where I used to work, they got those from those shady pirated audiobook sites. Just log their DNS queries for a week and you’ll know what to block.