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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nYou can also disable notifications from specific sites you\u2019ve granted permission to, of disable notifications entirely. This page shows some example: Notification Test<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSite notifications\u201d are a browser feature which is widely misused by advertisers and scammers. It was created to allow sites you visit to send you future \u201cnotifications\u201d \u2013 for example a social media site might want to tell you you\u2019ve received a message \u2013 and they have to ask for your permission to do this. Unfortunately many sites just use the permission you\u2019ve given to bombard you with adverts or even fake warning messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each \u201cnotification\u201d will arrive in your PC\u2019s \u201cnotification area\u201d (usually the bottom-right of the main screen) even when you\u2019re not viewing Web pages, so can be very distracting or even make you thing it\u2019s a warning message from Windows. So only give permission to a site to send you notifications if you really want to let them pop-up a message on your PC whenever they want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The request for permission looks like this (below). It comes from your browser, not the site, so they always look the same. This one is from the Daily Mail newspaper, so I\u2019m happy just to go there if I want \u2013 I don\u2019t want them \u201cpinging\u201d me whenever they like. SO, unless you\u2019re not sure you really want to give a site the power to ping your PC whenever they choose, just choose \u201cblock\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also disable notifications from specific sites you\u2019ve granted permission to, of disable notifications entirely. This page shows some example: Notification Test<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n