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How to Disable Notifications in Chrome? (2020)

The users of Google Chrome web browsers receive quick answers or quick suggestions as you start typing; it also has the feature of translation through one click.

One of the biggest disadvantages of using the internet is the possibility of a privacy and data breach, but Google Chrome protects you with its best security features.

You can research various e-libraries, read the news on the internet by subscribing to various newspapers, etc.

One of the most used web browsers today is Google Chrome; it is easy and quick to use and helps to browse your way through the internet smartly.

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At times, it's helpful to set up notices on Google Chrome with the goal that you will get an alarm if there's been a report on a specific site. For instance, you may get work area notices when you get another email or get Chrome notices from your preferred news site, when a significant story breaks.

In case you're getting an excessive number of notices, however, you might need to handicap a few, or every one of them. Chrome has various features; along with using your Google account on the web browser, it sends you reminders and notifications about upcoming meetings, texts from apps, subscribed notifications from websites and extensions, update alerts, virus alerts, etc.

Chrome provides a set of settings to avoid these notifications. One of the easiest ways to avoid notifications is to browse in the incognito mode. 

How Notifications work on Chrome

Some of the time, when you're perusing the Web, you'll be provoked by a particular site to permit or refuse that page to show notices in your program. On the off chance that you acknowledge, the site's proprietor will have the option to send messages that spring up on your PC when you have another notice. For the most part, the site will stack, in the event that you click the warning. 

In the event that you do not permit the notifications, at that point for the most part, the site won't have the option to incite you once more, except if you change your Chrome settings. On the off chance that you utilize different programs, you may be provoked independently to permit warnings in every one of them, since every program has its own notice framework.

How to disable the notifications in chrome in Windows

How to turn off or disable all notifications in Google Chrome

Follow the steps mentioned below:

  1. 1
    Open the Google Chrome Web Browser
  2. 2
    When the page of Chrome opens on your screen, you can spot three dots at the top right corner of the screen; at the extreme right of the address bar.
  3. 3
    When the page of Chrome opens on your screen, you can spot three dots at the top right corner of the screen; at the extreme right of the address bar.
  4. 4
    Click on the dots, and you can see the option of Settings at the bottom, click on it.
  5. 5
    It opens the settings page, wherein if you scroll down a bit you can spot 'Privacy and Security' settings.
  6. 6
    Under Privacy and Security Setting, the bottom option reads as 'Site Settings', click on it.
  7. 7
    The site settings firstly show your recent activities, and when you scroll down under the head of 'Permissions', you can spot 'Notifications' with a bell icon on its left.
  8. 8
    Click on Notifications, wherein you can spot the option of 'Block all; you can turn off the notification from all websites, or you can specifically block a website by clicking 'Add' next to the website you want to block.
  9. 9
    Now, click 'Enter'.

Sometimes this method of disabling notifications does not work and some apps or extensions still keep notifying you, but you can disable them by following the below-mentioned steps on Windows PC:

  1. 1
    Open your laptop or computer.
  2. 2
    Press Windows Key + D on your keyboard or visit the desktop.
  3. 3
    The Chrome icon of notification is bell-shaped, left-click on the icon visible on the notification bar which can be located at the bottom-right corner of the laptop or computer screen.
  4. 4
    Or you can click on the icon of 'Up arrow' at the start of the Notification bar, as you see the bell, then left-click on it.
  5. 5
    As you see the gear icon, click on it.
  6. 6
    Now you may uncheck the website, apps, and extension that you don't wish to receive notifications from.

How to disable the notifications in chrome in Mac

Follow the steps mentioned below:

  1. 1
    Click on the bell icon, in the system's menu bar.
  2. 2
    As you spot the gear icon, click on it.
  3. 3
    Now you may uncheck the website, apps, and extension that you don't wish to receive notifications from.
  4. 4
    You have an option to click on 'Do not Disturb', 'Do not Disturb for one hour', 'Do not disturb for one day' in case you need a break from the bombarding notifications.
  5. 5
    You can hide notification though the chrome option in the top bar of the web browser.

How to disable the notifications in chrome in Android

How to Disable/Remove Google Chrome Notifications(Android)

  1. 1
    On your Android mobile or tablet, open the application of Chrome
  2. 2
    Go to the site you would prefer not to get notifications from.
  3. 3
    To one side of the location bar, tap More and afterward Info.
  4. 4
    Tap on Site Settings and afterward Notifications.
  5. 5
    In the event that you don't see the setting here, this site can't send you notices.
  6. 6
    Pick Allow or Block.

Turn pop-ups off 

  1. 1
    On your Android mobile phone or tablet, open the application of Google Chrome.
  2. 2
    To one side of the location bar, tap More and afterward Settings.
  3. 3
    Tap Site settings and afterward Pop-ups and ads.
  4. 4
    Turn Pop-ups and diverts OFF.

In Other Browsers

Different programs oversee notifications independently. On Mozilla Firefox, you can discover notice settings under the "Options" menu, otherwise called "Preferences" on a Mac, by clicking "Permission," at that point "Notification Settings." You can debilitate notices from specific locales or by and large, similarly as in Chrome. 

In case you're utilizing Microsoft Edge, click the "three dabs" menu button at the upper right corner of the program window, at that point click "Settings." Scroll down and click "View advanced settings." Scroll down to "Notification" and snap "Manages" to get to the warning settings. 

On Apple Safari, click the "Safari" menu and afterward "Preferences." Click on the "Notification" tab to hinder warnings from a few or all sites.

Conclusion

One of the best features of Google Chrome or any other web browsers is the desktop notification as it allows a glance at the messages or alerts from the websites that you have subscribed to and even your emails. These give us a chance to respond to important emails quickly and not miss read important notifications or news. 

The desktop notifications were a boon to technology until the websites started sending spam notifications and advertisement notifications. Hence, it has become necessary that we disable the notifications of the websites that send spam and advertisements notifications which you haven't subscribed for. 

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Piyush Kashyap is a Ph.D student at Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sangrur. He is a budding editor/ writer and has been working as a part-time reviewer for online content. He loves to read tech-based articles and has a knack for reviewing such articles He likes to stay updated about the latest trends in technology. He has also been working as a reviewer for many scientific journals. He also writes articles based on science. Know More About Piyush


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