Microsoft’s Edge browser has a new tool in the battle against spam, in the form of defenses against spammy notifications from websites. Microsoft explains: “Website notifications are great for staying ...

Website notifications are a plague on the modern internet. Typically, they ask for your permission to receive automatic updates from specific sites, but many people just find them to be an annoyance ...

Back in July 2020, Microsoft detailed the efforts it was taking to make browser notifications less annoying in Edge. The firm enabled what it called “quiet notification requests”, a feature that ...

Although notifications have been around since the earliest days of desktop computing, the smartphone has probably made them even more pervasive and invasive. The practice has even crept into other non ...

Microsoft Edge version 88 will be gaining a new feature called "adaptive notification requests", using 'the wisdom of the crowd' to take a more balanced approach to browser notification alerts from ...

Microsoft is now using crowdsourcing to determine whether to show a site's website subscription dialog prompt in the Microsoft Edge web browser. Websites have increasingly started to show prompts to ...

Microsoft Edge will now block out spammy notifications. Notifications will work as usual if you've already accepted them. Microsoft has indicated that fewer customers are lodging complaints regarding ...

Microsoft is trying a new solution for the persistent “would you like to allow notifications from this website” requests that you see across the internet: crowdsourcing data on which ones people block ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new adaptive notification requests feature on Microsoft Edge. The feature studies how people respond to notification requests to decide which requests to show going forward.