How to turn off push notifications in Yandex Browser and Google Chrome. How to disable web push notifications

You probably noticed that not too long ago browsers began to support the pop-up function. notifications(they are also often called “ alerts", because it comes from the English " notifications"). And many sites, especially those selling something, immediately began asking you to turn on desktop notifications. It looks like this: you go to some website and after a second you see a pop-up window at the top with the text “ Site so-and-so is asking for permission to show alerts" or " Subscribe to notifications?". Even if a user continually opts out of receiving alerts and doesn't see those notifications, they may become annoyed by the constant pop-up prompts on their own.

In this article we will look at:

what are notifications (alerts) and how they work;
how to prevent sites from showing requests to display notifications;
How to opt out of notifications from certain sites that you previously allowed to show notifications.

Example requests

The text in the pop-up window may be different on each site:

The site asks for permission to show alerts

Subscribe to site notifications

What is an alert, what are they for and how does it work

Alerts are designed to promptly notify the user about the release of the latest news or the availability of a new product for sale. When these appear, you will see a notification in the lower corner of the screen:

Push notification from mail.ru website

However, different sites may use both in-place and out-of-place alerts. Once you allow them to be shown, the site will be able to display pop-up information constantly and as often as it likes. Of course, this may get boring for the user. By the way, I’m willing to bet that few people have any idea what they’re agreeing to when they click “allow” or “subscribe.”

How to disable alerts (notifications) in the browser

Now directly about how to turn off the notification function in each of popular browsers and thus prevent sites from showing requests to display pop-up alerts and annoying pop-up requests like “Subscribe to notifications?”

Disable notification requests in Google Chrome

By the way, if you want to turn your desktop into hell, you can try selecting “allow all sites to show notifications” (without prompting) :)

We prohibit notifications in Yandex browser

Everything here is similar to Chrome.

Disabling notifications in Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla doesn't yet have a switch to disable the feature, however, alerts can be turned off using a hidden setting.

Disable notifications and requests in Opera

Using version 56.0 as an example

Use this toggle switch to turn off requests to send notifications for all sites at once. Those. You will no longer see a single question about subscribing to updates in Opera and you do not need to block every website.

In old Opera versions the settings were different and had to be done like this:

Open Settings.
Click on the “Sites” section in the left column.
Scroll to the Notifications area.
Select "Prevent sites from showing system notifications":

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft, as always, must be different from its competitors in some way, in in this case- impossibility complete shutdown notification functions. So you will have to unsubscribe from notifications once on each site. We hope that in the future Microsoft will introduce an option to globally disable this wonderful feature.

How to turn notifications back on

Everything is simple here. If you change your mind in the future and want to allow requests to display alerts, simply go to specified settings re-enable the function.

How to disable alerts from a specific site if you previously allowed it to show alerts

Let's say you once allowed a certain site to show alerts, and now you want to refuse them, without preventing other sites from offering the alert.

You can also click on the cross and remove the site from the list. In this case, when you visit the site again, it will again prompt you to show notifications, unless you have disabled the notification function in your browser. By the way, please note that sites such as drive.google.com are initially whitelisted.

How to do the same in Android

If you want to remove notifications from a publication or store for which you previously allowed them, follow these steps. By the way, the easiest way to do this is when you see the next news from this web resource in the notification panel.

Push notifications are pop-up messages that contain short text, an image and a link to the sender's website. Initially they were used only in mobile applications, but in recent years the technology of browser push notifications, or web push, has become popular.

For sites such notifications are: effective way formation own base subscribers. In order to become one of them, the user just needs to click on the button in the pop-up browser window. After this, web push messages pop up with sound and on top of all windows on the computer screen, even when the browser is not running.

Who sends them and why do users need it?

Push notifications are actively used news portals, online stores, travel agencies and even some banks. The media thus announce new articles, online stores - promotions, sales or assortment updates; travel agencies - current offers on hotels and tours, banks - mailings on their products. In addition, you can receive notifications about payment for goods, reminders about renewal of service tariffs, confirmation of departure/departure information (in the case of travel agencies), and other notifications.

The main advantage of push notifications is that, unlike e-mail newsletters, such messages are more targeted. Each registered subscriber is assigned an encrypted string (token). The token is unique for each domain, key and device type. Thanks to this, a user who has subscribed to web push from a work PC will not receive additional notifications on his mobile phone or personal computer. Therefore, it is also impossible to take the token database of other people’s subscribers: each site will have its own token.

Why is everyone complaining about web push?

The disadvantages of push notifications stem from their own advantages: not all companies use this method for its intended purpose, continuous text messages with the same type of advertising turn into spam. If a user has too many subscriptions to notifications from different sites, at some point it becomes annoying.

How to disable push notifications in your browser if you don't like them:

In Google Chrome:

Launch the Chrome browser on your computer, in the right top corner window, click on the three dots and go to “Settings”;

At the bottom of the page, click “Advanced”;

In the “Privacy and Security” section, select “Content Settings”;

Select “Notifications”;

Select the appropriate option:

1) block all notifications - disable the “Ask permission before sending” option.

2) block notifications from a specific site - next to “Block”, click “Add”, enter the page address and select “Add” again;

In order to re-allow notifications from a specific site, next to the “Block” text you need to click “Add”, enter the page address and select “Add” again.

In Safari:

You can hide site requests to send notifications in Safari by going to Safari > Preferences > Websites > Notifications. IN last section You need to uncheck the “Allow websites to ask permission to send push notifications” checkbox. From now on, Safari won't ask you when you visit websites that might send notifications. You can also enable notifications again in your browser settings if necessary.

In Yandex browser:

To create this browser, the same engine was used as in Chrome, so the algorithm of actions here will be almost the same. In order to turn off notifications, you need to go to “Settings”, then open “Advanced”, find the “Personal Data” section in them and click on the “Content Settings” button. In the “Notifications” item, after this you need to select “Do not show notifications from sites” and click “Done”.

In Opera:

Click on the “Menu” icon with the Opera icon, go to “Settings” and select “Sites” in the list of sections. After this, you need to find the “Notifications” item on the left side of the window and check the “Prohibit sites from showing system notifications” option.

In Mozilla Firefox:

Firefox is an exception among all browsers: here you can also turn off notifications by checking the "Do not disturb" checkbox in the content settings, but they will only be blocked until you restart the browser. Users who want to disable push notifications once and for all should open the new tab and enter in address bar enter the command about:config.

After this, the browser will display a warning about the risk of changing settings - you need to confirm that you accept it. Then type dom.push.enabled in the search bar. In the window that appears, switch the parameter value from true to false. This means you can forget about push notifications.

You've probably noticed that when you visit websites, some browsers display a service message asking the user for permission to show him notifications. These are the so-called web push notifications, the goal of the authors is to attract visitors to their site.

Many agree, but then they begin to get bored with this service. What can you do to disable such notifications if you have already subscribed to them? How can I prevent similar subscription offers from appearing again and again on subsequent visits to certain websites? Let's look at the options.

It is worth noting that before Facebook, domestic online stores, news portals, and operators asked me for similar permission. mobile communications, advertising agencies, brand pages and even some websites of government agencies. Where I haven't noticed yet similar requests– this is on porn resources.

As a result, the user begins to receive notifications in the form of clickable windows with a picture and text. When you click on this window, the user follows a link to the site that he previously allowed to send him notifications. For what?

Prompt information about top news, promotions, and anything else, but most often this is advertising information.

The boom in the implementation of this tool in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet, in my opinion, is caused by the fact that the service, which provides the ability to send web-push notifications, made it free after a short beta testing. And away we go.

The massive introduction of the new tool prompted me to write instructions on how to unsubscribe from such notifications, as well as give a brief summary of the effectiveness of such a tool for an advertiser, and whether it is worth connecting such a popular tool now.

How to unsubscribe? (information from open sources, including from the pages of the Push mailing services themselves)

How to unsubscribe from push notifications in Google Chrome

Method 1. When receiving a message.

Once you see the push notification, right-click on it to open a drop-down menu.

Click Turn Off Notifications.

Method 2. Through the notification icon.

If you have an accumulation of unread notifications, a bell appears in the tray. When you click on it, the push notification control panel opens.

In the panel, you can view all missed notifications, set the “do not disturb” mode, or completely disable push messages. To do this, simply uncheck the boxes from sites from which you no longer want to receive notifications.

Method 3. Through managing notifications in the browser Google Chrome

Go to the browser menu and select “Settings”

In the window that opens, select the subscriptions you want to unsubscribe from and delete them.

How to unsubscribe from push notifications in Safari.

We follow the path: Safari -> Settings -> Notifications. And turn off everything unnecessary. Here you can also set preferences for notification delivery: do not disturb mode, delivery time, etc. To do this, go to the Notification Preferences menu.

I would like to note that we connected this service to the company’s website, where until recently I was engaged in digital direction, at the beginning of the year. That is, I saw times when this tool was not in BETA testing, was paid and not so widespread.

Indeed, a base of more than 10 thousand subscribers was gathered quite quickly, and the very first test newsletter showed that the conversion into traffic to the site was higher than that of a classic E-mail newsletter.

Users actually click on windows and go to sites.

Obviously, as soon as a sufficient number of pages and digital managers join the service, it will become paid. At the same time, you most likely will not be able to transfer your subscriber base to another service. Hats off to my colleagues from Sendpulse.

Quite a long time ago, browsers added the function of receiving push notifications from visited sites, and at the same time you can often see an offer to notify you about news. This is quite convenient, but if you think about it, the user who recklessly subscribed to large number such notifications, suddenly wants to turn them off.

In this article, we described in detail how to disable and remove push notifications in Google Chrome and Yandex Browser from any sites, as well as how to make sure that the browser no longer asks about receiving notifications.

To stop receiving notifications in Google Chrome for Windows systems, you must do the following.

1. Open Settings in Google Chrome.

2. At the very end of the page, select “Show additional settings", then, in the "Personal data" column, click on "Content settings".

3. On this page, you will notice the “Alerts” section, where you can select the options for alerts from sites of your choice.

4. If you want, you can disable notifications from some sites and, conversely, enable them for others by selecting the “Configure exceptions” button in the notification settings.

If you suddenly want to remove all notifications, as well as remove requests from sites to show them to you, you can select the “Do not show notifications on sites” option.

Google Chrome on Android

In the same way, you can turn off notifications in Google browser Chrome on an Android phone or tablet:

1. Open the settings, and then in the “Advanced” section, open the “Site Settings” item.

2. Select the “Alerts” item.

3. Here you can enable one of the parameters - show a request to send notifications (standard) or disable the display of notifications (the “Alerts” item is disabled).

If you need to remove notifications only for special sites, this can be done in the “Site Settings” section by selecting “All Sites”.

Once you find the site for which you want to turn off notifications in the list, select the Clear and reset option. Then, the next time you visit the same site, you will again receive a request for push notifications and now you can turn them off.

How to remove notifications in Yandex Browser

Yandex Browser has several sections for disabling and enabling notifications. The first one you can find at home page parameters, it is called “Notifications”.

If you select “Configure notifications”, you will notice that this applies only to Yandex mail and VKontakte notifications, and you can turn them off only for mail and VK, respectively.

Push notifications for all other sites can be removed as follows:

1. Open settings and at the end of the page select “Show advanced settings”.

What are Push Notifications

For sites, such notifications are an effective way to form their own subscriber base. In order to become one of them, the user just needs to click on the button in the pop-up browser window. After this, web push messages pop up with sound and on top of all windows on the computer screen, even when the browser is not running.

Who sends them and why do users need it?

Push notifications are actively used by news portals, online stores, travel agencies and even some banks. The media thus announce new articles, online stores - promotions, sales or assortment updates; travel agencies - current offers on hotels and tours, banks - mailings on their products. In addition, you can receive notifications about payment for goods, reminders about renewal of service tariffs, confirmation of departure/departure information (in the case of travel agencies), and other notifications.

Why is everyone complaining about web push?

How to disable push notifications in your browser if you don't like them:

Launch the Chrome browser on your computer, click on the three dots in the upper right corner of the window and go to “Settings”;

At the bottom of the page, click “Advanced”;

In the “Privacy and Security” section, select “Content Settings”;

Select “Notifications”;

Select the appropriate option:

1) block all notifications - disable the “Ask permission before sending” option.

2) block notifications from a specific site - next to “Block”, click “Add”, enter the page address and select “Add” again;

In order to re-allow notifications from a specific site, next to the “Block” text you need to click “Add”, enter the page address and select “Add” again.

You can hide site requests to send notifications in Safari by going to Safari > Preferences > Websites > Notifications. In the last section, you need to uncheck the “Allow websites to ask permission to send push notifications” checkbox. From now on, Safari won't ask you when you visit websites that might send notifications. You can also enable notifications again in your browser settings if necessary.

In Yandex browser:

In Mozilla Firefox:

Firefox is an exception among all browsers: here you can also turn off notifications by checking the "Do not disturb" checkbox in the content settings, but they will only be blocked until you restart the browser. Users who want to disable push notifications once and for all should open a new tab in the browser and enter the command about:config in the address bar.