Whether you use Google Chrome on a Windows computer or Mac, the steps needed to disable push notifications are identical. By default, Google Chrome alerts you if you access a website that intends to send you notifications. Over time, Google has also become good at automatically blocking intrusive notifications. Another way to prevent websites from sending notifications is to switch to Chrome’s incognito mode.
To disable Google Chrome push notifications on your computer:
- Open Chrome
- Look for the three dots at the top right corner, and click “Settings”
- In the Settings menu, click the “Privacy and security” option
- Click on “Site settings,” and then click “Notifications”
- To prevent all websites from sending notifications, make sure the option “Don’t allow sites to send notifications” is selected.
If you do not wish to enforce a blanket ban on all notifications, ensure that the option “Sites can ask to send notifications” is selected. Once enabled, you have three options to choose from. Select the option that suits your requirement the best.
- Collapse all requests in the address bar
- Collapse unwanted requests
- Expand all requests
If you have a handful of websites, you do not mind receiving notifications from, you can manually add those websites to an exclusion list, and you will continue to receive notifications from them irrespective of the default setting you have chosen. To add a website to this list, click the Add button next to the option “Sites listed below follow a custom setting instead of the default” under the “Customized behaviors” option. Once added, click on the three dots next to the URL, and click “Allow”.