How To Turn Notifications On Or Off In Chrome

Have you ever come across a website where you are prompted by Chrome whether or not you want to enable notifications for it? The point of these notifications, similar to those on our phones, is to let users know whenever the site has been updated. This is useful, for sure, but sometimes you might get too many notifications where it becomes annoying.

If you’d like to learn how to better manage Chrome notifications, such as how to turn it on or off for websites that you visit, you’ll be pleased to learn that it’s actually a rather simple and straightforward process that will take just a few minutes for you to setup.

Turn Off Notifications For All Websites

If you’d rather not be prompted at all whether or not you want to receive notifications, you can actually disable it for all websites involved:

1. Go to Settings > Privacy and security
2. Click on Site Settings
3. Under Permissions, select Notifications
4. Next to “Site can ask to send notifications” toggle it off

Now what this means is that websites will no longer be able to prompt you whether or not you want to receive notifications. If you never intended to receive notifications in the first place, then this is a good option as it more or less disables it entirely. If you wish to turn the feature back on, just repeat the steps above and you’re good to go.

Allow Notifications For Specific Websites

Let’s say you want to disable notifications for most websites, but there are some that you’d still like to receive notifications from, what then? Chrome actually allows users to set permissions for specific websites that they want to receive notifications from, so while you can block 99% of the websites you visit, you can still allow that 1% through.

1. Go to the website you want to allow notifications from
2. In the URL bar, click the lock icon
3. Next to Notifications click and select “Allow”
4. Now you will receive all notifications from this website

Alternatively, if you have a bunch of websites that you want to add to your exemption list, you can do that by going to:

1. Go to Settings > Privacy and security
2. Click on Site Settings
3. Under Permissions, select Notifications
4. Next to Allow, click Add and enter the URL of the website you want to allow notifications from

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