What we want, however, is “ Notifications“, as highlighted. There are quite a few things worth checking out here to ensure that your privacy and data sharing settings are consistent with your actual preferences, as you can see: Now look in the new options for “ Content settings“: ” on the top right of the browser if you’re on a PC) then scroll to the bottom to find “Advanced”:Ī click and lots of additional settings are revealed.Start by going to “Settings” (off the Chrome menu on a Mac, off the “ To block the notifications is complicated, however, because it’s an “Advanced” Google Chrome setting which means you have to jump through a few hoops to get things set up. What does this mean? That they’ve deliberately set this up as just a Chrome notification site and want you to be confused and leave it all set up. To start, here are the notifications you sent me:Īs you can see, these are all from a site called “” which doesn’t come up as a valid Web page. Then again, when I look at my own notifications, there are a couple of domains I don’t recognize (we’ll get back to that) so perhaps there are ways that these sites can insinuate themselves onto the list! However that transpired, Google Chrome is set up so that you have to grant permission for Notifications. Heck, it might have carefully – or sneakily – phrased it so that you thought it was something really helpful and useful like “Get updates on your favorite new movies and celebrity news: Click OK” In fact, you probably clicked “OK” when it asked if it could send you notifications without realizing that’s what you were approving. Really pretty frustrating, but the good news is that it’s not a virus or malware in the sense of most computer malware infections. And now, those helpful little Google Chrome notifications that pop up with breaking news or the update that your latest download has completed is being infected by malware too. Spam pop-ups, even days after you leave a questionable – or infected – Web site? Yep.
In the endless Cold War of spammers versus the rest of the online world, there’s always another avenue to exploit.
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