Did you know that push notifications are often misused these days to display annoying advertisements in the web browser?
Let me start with push notifications, what are push notifications? A push notification is a browser functionality used to notify users of new blog posts or news.
If push notifications have been accepted by the user, the user gives permission to display messages, also called notifications, with new blog posts or news.
Push notifications are legitimate functionality that should help users be informed about new content even without visiting the website.
However, I see more and more fake websites that abuse push notifications to trick users into clicking on ads. It is possible to replace a new push message with a hyperlink to a blog post with a rogue advertisement.
In this way, cyber criminals abuse legitimate browser functionality to trick users and generate revenue through annoying advertisements.
In this instruction I will explain to you how to disable push notifications (messages) in the Google Chrome and Firefox web browser.
Remove push notifications from Google Chrome
Open the Google Chrome browser, open the menu in the right corner of Chrome. Navigate to in the menu Settings.
Navigate down to Advanced settings. In the advanced Google Chrome menu go to Content settings.
Click notifications and select the three vertical dots next to the URL that displays the notifications.
Select remove from the notifications menu.
Disable push notifications in Mozilla Firefox
Open the Firefox browser, open the menu in the right corner of Firefox. Navigate to in the menu Options.
In the left Firefox menu, select Privacy & Security. Navigate down to Notifications and select Settings.
Select the URL that displays the notifications and click Delete website.
You have now successfully removed push notifications from Google Chrome or Firefox.
It is important that you do not accept notifications from websites that you are not familiar with or do not want to receive messages from.
I hope this has helped you to delete notifications.