Google’s Chrome Web browser is going to become much less noisy.
On Friday, the technological giant announced A new feature that will automatically disable browser alerts for sites that you have not recently interacted, disrupting their ability to display alerts and updates that may no longer interest you.
The operation will start at Chrome on Android and the desktop.
The feature extends to existing functionality already available to Chrome’s security control capacity revitalization Camera and location rights from sites that you no longer visit.
The company implicitly admits that browser alerts, as designed, may have been a bad idea, saying that its own data shows that users receive a large volume of notifications but rarely interact with them. Less than 1% of all notifications receive any interactions from users, Google notes.
Still, the technological giant believes that some notifications can be useful, so he will not recall it installed web applications – Only for locations where there is low users involvement and a large volume of notifications sent. This change could only push the spammy sites that promote many notifications to re -examine how many want to send notifications, so they will not lose access completely.
Side alerts have been a matter that consumers have been facing for years. On the iPhone, for example, Apple was forced to add checks that allow users to send Push notifications to a daily summary, erase them or completely disable them from the alert message itself, after consumer Frustrations with the notice system increased.
Google says it will inform users when it removes notice rights, allowing users to change the setting if they prefer. If users prefer Google to intervene, they can also choose to disable this automatic reset function as a whole, the company notes.
The feature had tried before the official launch of today. Google has found that these changes did not significantly affect the total number of clicks on alerts, an indication that people were not really involved with these popups to start.
