Regular net surfers probably
encounter this annoyance a whole lot: they are online checking out sites on a
web browser, and when they arrive at some site or other, while the front page
is loading a popup prompt shows up, probably in an upper corner, asking if the
user would like the site to send them notifications. While they may initially a
well-meaning offer of convenience, the prospect of such notifications intruding
on your later net-surfs can be aggravating, not to mention potentially unsafe.
If only these notification-giving websites can remember that you said no. As it
turns out, Microsoft is trying something for that.
As The Verge would have it, Microsoft has been studying a method to
cut down on those website notification requests that just interrupt net surfers
out of nowhere, and will be including such a feature on their current web
browser. The idea the computing giant is testing is “adaptive notification
requests,” which is accomplished by having their Edge browser crowd-source data
from its many users, taking note of which website notifications they allow, and
which ones they block. So far the new notification method has met positive
results in testing.
The way it works is that Edge
will track how users respond to website notification requests. Usually the
options to such a notification are “Allow” and “Block.” If a user chooses block
or even just pays no attention to the notification, Edge would remember that
action. Thus if another user visits that website on his own Edge browser, it
will act on the crowd-sourced data and kill the request popup before it
appears. This appears to be the logical continuation of an Edge update from
July last year, with a one-click button to quiet notification requests by
default. The problem, Microsoft noticed, is that it gave users no option to
allow notifications they do like.
Microsoft would have this
adaptive notification feature included in the version 88.x build of their Edge
browser. It is a reasonable middle ground for net surfers who want only select
website notifications, and those who would rather not have the requests
bothering them. Now the question is if other browsers would follow Microsoft’s
lead for this.
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