The Notification Spam
Virtually every modern website—from news outlets to online stores to blogs—utilizes web push notifications to try and re-engage visitors. When you first navigate to a new site, Google Chrome’s default behavior is to allow the website to ask you if it can send notifications. This results in a small, annoying pop-up near the address bar on almost every new page you visit, forcing you to manually click “Block” to dismiss it. If you never use web notifications and find these constant permission requests distracting, you can configure Chrome to silence them permanently.
Silencing the Prompts
To browse the web without interruption and stop Google Chrome from automatically allowing websites to prompt you for notification permissions, you must change the global site settings.
Open Google Chrome. Click the three vertical dots in the top-right corner of the browser window and select Settings. In the left-hand navigation sidebar, click on Privacy and security. In the main central panel, click on Site settings. Scroll down slightly until you see the “Permissions” section, and click on Notifications. At the top of this menu, you will see three default behavior options. By default, “Sites can ask to send notifications” is selected. To completely stop the prompts, click the radio button next to Don’t allow sites to send notifications. From this point forward, Chrome will automatically and silently block every notification request, and you will never see the pop-up prompt again.