Be Very Sparing in Allowing Site Notifications

Gandalf_The_Grey

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An increasing number of websites are asking visitors to approve “notifications,” browser modifications that periodically display messages on the user’s mobile or desktop device. In many cases these notifications are benign, but several dodgy firms are paying site owners to install their notification scripts and then selling that communications pathway to scammers and online hucksters.
Read the full story here at Krebs on Security:
I have Location and Notifications blocked in MS Edge.
 
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ForgottenSeer 85179

In Edge this can be checked under:
edge://settings/content/notifications?search=notific

My settings:
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