Blocking unwanted messages in Google Chrome is easy-peasy, but where do all these unwanted messages came from?
Well, Google Chrome, one of the widely used browser for PC and android devices, enable websites to send notifications to users if they opt for that. These notifications are just like any other notification sent by other apps. It can be useful sometimes and may irritate you often.
How to get rid of unwanted notification in Google Chrome ?
Google Chrome will not allow any site to send unwanted notification until you say 'yes' to the notification consent displayed by the website to new users.
Sometimes we opt for notification just to stay updated about something important to us. But, soon this become a nightmare because websites owners nowadays see notifications as a marketing tool rather than a tool to update readers.
Google Chrome prioritize your privacy, that's why they have given you the option to block all or some notification from Settings menu. Google Chrome interface is almost the same across all devices, so steps below are equally applicable for PC, android, MAC, or iOS.
Steps to Block All Unwanted Messages from Google Chrome
- On your desktop, launch Chrome.
- Next to your profile symbol in the upper right corner, select the three dot menu.
- Select Settings.
- Go to Site Settings by scrolling down.
- Scroll down to Notifications under Site Settings.
- The option "Sites can ask to send notifications" will be toggled.
Switch it off.
Steps to Block Notification for Specific Sites
- Run the ‘Chrome’ application on your PC.
- Go to the top right side, click on Settings.
- Under “Privacy and security,” click Site settings.
- Click on Notifications.
- Choose to block or allow notifications.
- Then, go to the bottom of the screen and enter the URL of the website you want notifications from to the Allow section.
- If you are currently receiving alerts from certain websites that you don't want to, click the more icon (three vertical dots) next to the offending website, then choose Remove to stop receiving notifications.
How to block unwanted popup messages in Google Chrome?
Just like notifications, popups are another form of unwanted message that websites show to visitors for taking some action. It can be a signup form, a promotional offer, new post notifications or in its worse form a popup ad. Whatever, may be the case, it is annoying and creates a bad user experience.
Thanks to Google Chrome again. You can block all popups from appearing into view.
Follow the steps below to enable the popup blocker in Chrome.
Steps to Block Unwanted Popup Messages in Google Chrome
- Open the Chrome browser on your device.
- On the right side of the address bar, click on Settings.
- Tap on Site Settings to see Popups, and redirects.
- Turn off the Pop-us and redirects from there.
Although turning off popups from settings will stop most of the popup on websites yet modern marketing tools has a trick to evade this problem. They can show customized popups that goes undetected by popup blocker.
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In this case, you need to rely on Google Chrome extensions to block unwanted messages, notifications and popups. So, let's see some of useful extension that will let you remove all unwanted notification from chrome.
Best Google Chrome Extension to Remove Unwanted Messages and Notifications
1. Ad Blocker Ultimate
Ad Blocker is the first name came to mind when you want to block ads over the internet. Free version of Ad Blocker Ultimate is enough for blocking, popup ads, pop under, YouTube ads, Google text and banner ads. There are some alternatives available to Ad blocker like uBlock Origin or Ghostery.
No one like ads, but that's a primary source of income for publishers and content creators. So, if any sites doesn't show too many ads, then you can allow those sites by adding an exception to Ad blocker extension settings.
2. Mercury Reader :
If you are a regular blog reader, you might get disturbed by the overlay popups and banner ads appearing on blogs these days. Mercury reader clear all this clutter, leaving only the article you want to focus on.
If you have updated version of Google Chrome you might get the option of simplified page view for some sites which removes all the ads, sidebars, popups from the article. Also, it gives a bunch of readability options to make your reading experience better.
3. AutoplayStopper :
Some of the most popular news media websites are full of autoplay videos. They start playing unwanted videos as soon as you visit their site. AutoplayStopper will get you covered in this situation. This extension blocks all videos on a site from autoplaying, this includes both ads and non ads videos.
If, for some reason, you want some sites to autoplay videos, you can change the setting from extension's option menu and allow the site to autoplay videos.
4. I Don't Care About Cookies:
Most of the websites you visit nowadays prompt you with GPDR notification to 'Allow Cookies'. If you want to get rid of them, you can give 'I Don't Care About Cookies' extension a try. This extension will block the cookie consent on nearly all sites.
Additionally, you may report any cookie notifications that manage to get through the blocker by selecting Report a cookie warning from the extension's settings menu.
Final Words:
Google Chrome and other browser are continuously evolving their privacy and security filters so that blog readers can get a simple and safe reading environment. Some of the most famous browser like Firefox, even provide strict privacy protection which nearly block every single tracker, popups and unwanted notifications from appearing during your visit.
These all things are a good signal that we might not see unwanted messages in future and get sensible notifications from the website owners. But no one knows whats coming up, so hope for the best.