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February 17, 2021 02:00 pm

Microsoft Edge Won't Show You Notification Requests Other People Don't Like

Microsoft is trying a new solution for the persistent "would you like to allow notifications from this website" requests that you see across the internet: crowdsourcing data on which ones people block and which ones they allow. From a report: According to a blog post today, Microsoft is calling this feature adaptive notification requests, and the company is rolling it out in Edge 88 after it received positive feedback from testers. For an example of how this works, say there's a website that commonly asks for notifications, and nobody wants them. They'll either ignore the request or click the block button to make sure they never see it again. Microsoft then collects that data and will stop showing new users the notification request in the future.

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