๐ Google Chrome 84 Declares War to Abusive Notifications
๐ก Newskategorie: IT Security Nachrichten
๐ Quelle: news.softpedia.com
Notifications are one very useful feature on the web today, but while more and more people use it, malicious actors are also looking for more complex ways of embedding them into their nefarious tactics. And Google knows this best, as the company admits that browser notifications arenโt always used for their main purpose and end up as a tool to push malware or get access to private user information. The company plans to fight all of these by adding sites with abusive permission requests and abusive notifications to the quieter notifications UI. Users will be warned when a website tries to trick them into clicking a specific notification beginning with Chrome 84, which will go live for everyone on July 14, 2020. โAbusive notification prompts are one of the top user complaints we receive about Chrome. A large percentage of notification requests and notifications come from a small number of abusive sites. Protecting users from these sites improves user safety & privac... ...