Google Chrome 86 cracks down on sites engaged in notification abuse

Google is cracking down on pesky notifications from websites on its Chrome browser. The latest version (v86) of Chrome browser has added a new feature that is aimed at blocking websites that try to use notifications for abusive and misleading content.

The new feature joins Google’s recent efforts to make it easier for users to manage notifications. The v80 of Chrome had introduced a quite Notification permission UI. The v84 built upon this to add auto-enrolment in quiet notification UI for a website that offered abusive notification permission requires.

The Chrome 86 focuses mainly on notification content and detects websites that had a record of sending abusive content through notifications. Google points out that some malicious websites use this trick to inject malware or show system messages-like interface to obtain users’ login credentials.