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Reducing abusive notification content

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Reducing abusive notification content

Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Although notifications on the web are useful for a variety of applications, they can also be misused for phishing, malware or fake messages that imitate system notifications for the purpose of generating user interactions.

In Chrome 86, we’ve expanded on previous efforts [1] [2] to improve the quality of the web notification ecosystem by adding enforcement for websites sending abusive notification content. This includes sites sending messages containing links to malware or that seek to spoof system administrative messages.

When abusive notification content is detected on an origin, Chrome will automatically display the permission requests using a quieter UI, shown below.

How is this different from previous abusive notification protections?​

Chrome 80 introduced the quiet Notification permission UI. Chrome 84 announced auto-enrolment in quiet notification UI for websites with abusive notification permission requests, such as sites that use deceptive patterns to request notification permission.

The new enforcement in Chrome 86 focuses on notification content and is triggered by sites that have a history of sending messages containing abusive content. This treatment applies to sites that try to trick users into accepting the notification permission for malicious purposes, for example
 
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