Web browser push notifications - how does one selectively block?

[britechguy]

These loathsome things have recently come up on another topic, tangentially, but I wanted to split this off into a topic of its own. As hard as it is for me to believe, some people actually want these things. But to a person, those that do eventually either change their minds for a specific site or accidentally "allow" when they meant to click "block."

I am having no luck in finding where, in browser settings, the list of sites permitted to show these things is located. Vivaldi, in particular, but more generally.

There has got to be a way to disallow these based upon which have been allowed in the past, but I'll be darned if I can find it.

 

[phaZed]

In Chrome, it's Settings->Privacy and security->Site Settings->Permissions/Notifications

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

For those of us who manage clients via RMM....you can push scripts out to disable browser notifications. This can happen in all common browsers....Chrome, Edge, Firefox,

https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/oolx6j

Also you can disable them via GPO....for on prem domains, or....via 365 InTune...via a configuration profile.

I have not look for a browser extension you can install to block these...for say, residential clients. There might be one out there.

 

[britechguy]

@phaZed,

I'm familiar with the Ask/Block/Allow setting you reference.

What I'm saying is that if, say, "Ask" is in use, and someone replies "Allow" when prompted whether notifications from site www.xyz.com are allowed, but later changes their mind about that specific site, does there exist, somewhere, a list of the allowed sites you can delete items from? If it exists, I have yet to find it.

Yes, I know you could add it to the "Not allowed" list, the top of which is showing at the bottom of your second screenshot, but I have to believe that somewhere there exists a list of the sites you've allowed that can be trimmed if one desires.

 

[britechguy]

Gentlemen,

I do appreciate all that's been offered, and will definitely file it away for future use. That being said, message #4 in this topic is the very specific question I have.

It's not about globally blocking, but selectively backing out of sites previously allowed when asked.

 

[phaZed]

@britechguy - I think we're talking the same place:

It is the allow and block list - and where to set them.

 

[britechguy]

@phaZed

Thanks. It may be that one thing that's going on with my own machine is not what I think it is. All of a sudden I'm starting to get notifications via Windows toasts (as they were once called) from Netflix, and I have no idea why. I presumed I had accidentally allowed notifications from them, but there's no evidence of that in the browser (I'll check the others I use, too).

In Vivaldi I set notifications to Block yesterday, there are no sites listed anywhere in that cluster of settings, and I still got another Netflix notification afterward.

P.S. Have checked Vivaldi, Edge, and Firefox and there's nothing in regard to Netflix being allowed to send notifications.

 

[Porthos]

I'm starting to get notifications via Windows toasts (as they were once called) from Netflix, and I have no idea why. I presumed I had accidentally allowed notifications from them, but there's no evidence of that in the browser (I'll check the others I use, too).

Do you have the Netflix app installed?
Just installed Vivaldi to test. Click the lock

 

[britechguy]

Nope.

 

[Sky-Knight]

If Windows is popping the notifications...

Start -> Settings -> System -> Notifications & Actions

First... kill the bottom three tick boxes:


Those silence a ton of pop ups that Win10/11 love to throw out there.

But after that scroll down!



By default, the list is in most recent! So, whatever is chattier... is at the top! You'll probably find either a browser, or a Netflix app you don't know about... SOMETHING. And you can turn off just that app with the switch.

 

[Porthos]

Nope.

Did you see my edit?

 

[britechguy]

Did you see my edit?

Not at the time of my prior "Nope."

I have a workspace open where I do have the Netflix website open, and here's what I found, thanks to you:


I have no recollection of having granted this permission, as my browser level setting was "Ask," and is now "Block." But I had to have done so accidentally, as I've never had any site just turn them on without explicit consent.

I also would never have thought that the only control for this would be where it is, as this information is not enumerated in browser settings anywhere.

 

[Porthos]

have no recollection of having granted this permission, as my browser level setting was "Ask,"

This is what I got when testing for your issue and since it was a new install everything was default.