Your browser is getting an upgrade — what to know.
Republished on October 12 with responses to Google’s update and advice to uses on what happens after this goes live.This echoes safety protections already built into Chrome, the world’s most popular browser by some distance, which police access to sensitive camera, location and other permissions.
Google says its quiet update is coming to both Android and desktop. This is crucial, Google says, because “data indicates that users frequently receive a high volume of notifications, resulting in minimal engagement and high disruption. Less than 1% of all notifications receive any interaction from users.”This doesn’t stop useful notifications. “This feature will only revoke permissions for sites when there is very low user engagement and a high volume of notifications being sent.” And “Chrome will inform you when notification permissions are removed.”Google says its tests “show a significant reduction in notification overload with only a minimal change in total notification clicks. Our experiments also indicate that websites that send a lower volume of notifications are actually seeing an increase in clicks.”points out, “it’s not just Chrome” that’s getting this kind of update. There’s now a silent theme across the platforms. “Google seems to have been taking steps lately to reduce notification overload across its entire product line. In May, YouTube began testing a feature where users would no longer receive push notifications from a particular channel if they hadn’t engaged with it recently, though the alerts would still be available via the notification inbox in the YouTube app.”explains “while Chrome notifies users when it disables the notifications, it hasn’t clarified what qualifies as low engagement. So, if you don’t want to miss notifications from certain websites, make sure you visit them frequently, or simply turn off the feature. However, it's worth noting that it won't impact the notifications you receive from Progressive Web Apps .”For many users debating Chrome versus the competition, the two more critical decision points will be new AI browsing upgrades, The news on that front is less good for Chrome users. Google’s very unquiet Gemini in Chrome upgrade has introduced a
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