Turn off Google Chrome notifications? That is how it works!

Notifications in Google Chrome are essentially pop-ups that appear on the desktop or home screen of your computer or Android device.

The notifications that Google Chrome sends are also called web notifications push notifications named. They are notifications sent by a particular website that wants to inform the user of new articles, news, or advertising. In this way, websites can continue to inform their visitors about new updates without the user having to visit the website directly.

Below is an example of a notification you can accept to be informed about the latest news articles:

Notifications sent by Google Chrome look and behave like pop-ups. If you click on a pop-up, the relevant website will open in a new tab.

Below is another example of what a notification via Google Chrome can look like on a Windows 11 PC. The notifications always appear in the lower right corner.

Most notifications displayed in Google Chrome have been accepted by the user themselves. So a permission has been accepted for a relevant website, allowing Chrome to send these notifications via this website.

However, if you no longer want notifications or you have been tricked into accepting these notifications, you can remove the permission that has been added to Google Chrome. This way the notifications stop.

Turn off Google Chrome notifications? That is how it works!

There are two ways to turn off notifications in Google Chrome. The first is to disable notifications completely. If you disable all notifications, no website can anymore ask you to accept notifications and therefore no more notifications can be sent.

The second way is to remove the permission to send notifications per website. This way, a single website can no longer send notifications.

Turn off all notifications in Google Chrome

• Open the Google Chrome browser.
• In the menu click on Settings.
• Then click Privacy & security.
• Then click on Site Settings.
• Now open the Notifications settings.
• Enable the option “Don't allow sites to send notifications.”

Notifications are now no longer sent via the Google Chrome browser.

Disable notifications by website in Google Chrome

If you do want to allow notifications. However, if you only want to disable the notifications for one relevant website, you can do this in the following way.

• Open the Google Chrome browser.
• In the menu click on Settings.
• Then click Privacy & security.
• Then click on Site Settings.
• Now open the Notifications settings.
• Now click on the three horizontal dots to the right of the website address in the “permission to send notifications” setting. In the menu click on delete.

The permission for the website in question to send notifications has now been removed. Notifications can still be sent or accepted by other websites.

You can optionally define in the “Custom behavior” setting whether website(s) may be added as an exception. For example, you can block all notifications, but only make an exception for one website. Or not show all notifications just for a single website.

You can add these exceptions by clicking the “add” button and applying the relevant setting in the notification settings.

I hope this helped you. Thank you for reading!