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Wrong solution to the problem. Let's be honest here, they are only getting those notifications because they visited some random shady website and clicked on "a
by Operative0198 4y ago
Wrong solution to the problem.
Let's be honest here, they are only getting those notifications because they visited some random shady website and clicked on "allow" notifications as they would click the "accept" cookies button; to hide the nag.
Installing uBlock or setting up ad-blocking DNS for your friends should cut out 99.9% of phishing and spam.
- scarface74 4y agoIs Toms Hardware considered “shady”?
- Operative0198 4y agoCan't find that reference in the article. Are you sure you got that right?
- scarface74 4y agoToms Hardware does or at least did use web notifications for advertising. I believe PCWorld did also.
- Operative0198 4y agoOh okay. Missed the joke. Killing off the notifications feature on the account of a few rogue actors doesn't seem like a reasonable measure. Though ironically even if we are to take your example, I would consider advertising in this scenario to be harmless compared to receiving malicious phishing links in your notifications. I believe those 2 websites would never stoop that low.
- scarface74 4y agoThey are mostly rogue actors. Almost everyone on the internet tries to monetize via advertising at every opportunity. And they may not purposefully stoop that low. But there are most likely using a third party ad network.