Some HN/reddit threads recently mentioned Library Genesis so I visited with Chrome desktop web browser on mac and was surprised it caused a deceptive push notif

Some HN/reddit threads recently mentioned Library Genesis so I visited with Chrome desktop web browser on mac and was surprised it caused a deceptive push notification. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/ZXxnM1G https://imgur.com/a/ZXxnM1G EDIT reply to: >That ad must've been injected by the proxy you were using to access LibGen. I just went to the top search result for "libgen" from google search result. It's possible they were trying a temporary monetization trial to take advantage of the Z-Library shutdown and that push notification is now gone. The other possibility is that the search result pointed to "libgen.ee" or "libgen.il" which apparently is a clone of Libgen (they call it "Library Genesis+") and it's the clone sites that have the push notifications. It's confusing to to people not familiar with it to know which is fake and which is real. (screenshot of google results: https://imgur.com/a/65Beo8H https://imgur.com/a/65Beo8H) On another side note, what's amazing is how that website got a push notification silently past Chrome's "Privacy and security" setting of "Sites can ask to send notifications". There was never a "Allow this site to send notification?" prompt. I wonder what Javascript trick they used to bypass Chrome's security.