Just a couple weeks ago i was helping "disinfect" an android phone for a acquaintance (shopkeeper) here in India. The "virus" in question was chrome notificati

Just a couple weeks ago i was helping "disinfect" an android phone for a acquaintance (shopkeeper) here in India. The "virus" in question was chrome notifications for spam/porn/malware probably from malvertisements embedeed in some websites. It took me several minutes to locate and disable them. You would think that chrome on android would give an option to disable an offending notification from the notification bar but no, you have to go digging in the chrome settings and scan through the permission list to find the offenders. While i certainly think it is a useful api needed for the free web(i still prefer websites over apps which are essentially websites with undeleteable hypercookies), Mozilla and Google need to do a better job protecting the literally billions of people who are less literate (either in tech or english) from the cesspool that is online media.