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chrome://settings/content/notifications
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Jean Fredette
2019-07-15 02:15:52 UTC
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Why doesn't chrome://settings/content/notifications = BLOCK
stop web sites from asking every time I visit the sites?
J. P. Gilliver (John)
2019-07-15 02:19:01 UTC
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Post by Jean Fredette
Why doesn't chrome://settings/content/notifications = BLOCK
stop web sites from asking every time I visit the sites?
Asking what?
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Jean Fredette
2019-07-15 02:24:20 UTC
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Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
Post by Jean Fredette
Why doesn't chrome://settings/content/notifications = BLOCK
stop web sites from asking every time I visit the sites?
Asking what?
For push notifications.
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/turn-off-chrome-desktop-push-notifications
https://www.how2shout.com/how-to/how-to-turn-off-push-notification-on-google-chrome-and-mozilla-firefox-browsers.html

If you haven't gotten a million of them, then either you aren't web
browsing, or you figured out the secret that I haven't figured out yet.

What's the secret so that I never get asked for push notifications?
Paul in Houston TX
2019-07-15 02:41:12 UTC
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Post by Jean Fredette
Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
Post by Jean Fredette
Why doesn't chrome://settings/content/notifications = BLOCK
stop web sites from asking every time I visit the sites?
Asking what?
For push notifications.
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/turn-off-chrome-desktop-push-notifications
https://www.how2shout.com/how-to/how-to-turn-off-push-notification-on-google-chrome-and-mozilla-firefox-browsers.html
If you haven't gotten a million of them, then either you aren't web
browsing, or you figured out the secret that I haven't figured out yet.
What's the secret so that I never get asked for push notifications?
Odd. I have never even seen such things.
I use uBlock Origin and Bluhell firewall though, along with the regular
popup blockers.
Mayayana
2019-07-15 13:43:32 UTC
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"Jean Fredette" <***@jolens.com> wrote

| For push notifications.
| https://www.thewindowsclub.com/turn-off-chrome-desktop-push-notifications
|
https://www.how2shout.com/how-to/how-to-turn-off-push-notification-on-google-chrome-and-mozilla-firefox-browsers.html
|

First, I know nothing about Chrome, so I can only
answer for FF.

The setting shown for Firefox at your link, in the
Privacy/Security section, only exists in FF 59+, but
the about:config setting is still available:

dom.webnotifications.enabled false

Also:

services.push.enabled false

While you're there, you might want to check the
following settings, if they exist. Note that there's an
ongoing trend toward "push", to commercialize the
Internet and turn your browser into a kind of interactive
TV set that leaks your personal data. Push refers to the
website as aggressor, deciding to send you data at
their discretion, as opposed to pull, which refers to the
traditional design: You visit a website, ask for data,
and the website gives you the files you ask for. It's
the difference between a store having a phone number vs
the store making spam calls to your phone.

The more you want interactive and push
services, the more you must allow your data to be
leaked. For instance, you can't find the nearest Chinese
restaurant on your phone if an app is not allowed to
track exactly where you are. And the addityional cost
of that is likely to be push ads for naother restaurant.
If you want privacy and
security it's important to keep up with the increasing data
leakage. Adjusting these settings also helps to break the
functionality of "push" in general. Push usefulness is limited
if a website doesn't know who you are.

geo.wifi.logging.enabled false
(Allow logging of location tracking data.)

geo.enabled false
(Allow sites to track your location.)

Browser.send.pings false
(Allow websites to automatically send notifications
to other sites when you click a link. This is an invisible
version of the trick sites like Google already do by
making their links go through their own server, along
with ID codes.)

dom.enable_performance false
(Allow sites to track loading performance and
thereby deduce info about your device.)

Dom.storage.enabled false
(This is so-called supercookies. But note that some
sites may require it to work.)

dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled false
(Allow a website to track copy/paste actions on
their webpage.)

WebRTC settings - below. ("Real time communication"
that allows tracking your computer camera,
microphone, etc. as well as enabling direct
data exchange with a website via script.)

media.getusermedia.audiocapture.enabled false
media.getusermedia.browser.enabled false
media.navigator.enabled false
media.peerconnection.enabled false
media.peerconnection.turn.disable true
media.peerconnection.use_document_iceservers false
media.peerconnection.video.enabled false
media.peerconnection.identity.timeout 1
media.peerconnection.identity.enabled false
loop.enabled false

JJ
2019-07-15 07:41:02 UTC
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Post by Jean Fredette
Why doesn't chrome://settings/content/notifications = BLOCK
stop web sites from asking every time I visit the sites?
That shouldn't happen.

Does it also happen on below site's page?

https://web-push-book.gauntface.com/demos/notification-examples/

When the prompt shows up, click either "Allow" or "Block" button. Don't
click the top-right "X" icon. Then reload the page. Does the prompt still
appear?
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