Tired of intruding notifications asking you to accept more notifications while browsing? History comes from afar and it must be said that the situation is no longer what it was, fortunately, but there are websites that continue to cross the line and Microsoft does not want to put up with it, therefore they are announcing measures that users of your browser do not have trouble and a potential security issue what does it mean

According to the Microsoft Edge blog, those responsible for the browser “analyzed dozens of types of notifications that could be considered annoying” with the intention of blocking them. “Web notifications are great for keeping you updated on your favorite apps, but they can also be used for spam messages that may be spam or even misleading. We’ve made changes to help you avoid these spam messages and increase your peace of mind,” they explain.

how do they do it? Two ways: identification of unreliable websites and user interventions, so even on sites that have been blocked by Microsoft, warnings will be displayed if the user has already agreed to receive them – as long as they do not pose a security risk -; it gives untagged sites the opportunity for the user to decide whether to accept or block when the warning first appears, except that the warning will no longer appear as before, but will remain in the address bar, along with the corresponding option.

The truth is, as they describe it, it is very similar to the behavior implemented by Firefox years ago, and to some extent continued by Firefox itself, and also by Chrome shortly after, with the addition of a “blacklist” of sites designed by Microsoft. . In fact, it is the next step to what has already been seen.

This means that anyone can configure their browser to block all web notifications by default manually accept the ones you want to accept (For example, the mention of web apps is most significant because of the loss of functionality that comes from not having these apps when they could be useful). The enterprise version of the browser will actually have a specific whitelist to allow notifications on certain sites.