Can't turn of notification requests.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I have selected 'Do not allow any site to show desktop notifications' in the settings but I continue to get notification requests from many sites. It's highly irritating. Anyone else experiencing this or can offer some advice? Think I first noticed this happening with Opera 50.

Opera 51.0.2830.40 - Win 7 64 bit

[arkus1995]

arkus1995 last edited by

I confirm I have the same.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I'm having the same problem and it's very annoying. Does anyone have a solution for this?

Version 54.0.2952.51
Windows 7 32-bit

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Do you have any example page and screenshot? I see many sites asking about notificatios without really using a notification request.

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg Sure, here goes two examples, from Portuguese websites in this case.

Thanks in advance.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Note that "Do not allow any site to show desktop notifications" does two things. It sets Notification.permission to "denied" and sets the permission callback variable for Notification.requestPermission() to "denied". It doesn't actually hide support for Notifications. So, a site can still call Notification.requestPermssion if it wants. If a site does that, it's either because they're being malicious/annoying or the code didn't check Notification.permission first. You'd probably need an extension to actually hide the Notification object in Javascript so that code breaks when the site tries to use it.

A site could also show a dialog other than the one Notificaiton.requestPermission() presents.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 said in Can't turn of notification requests.:

You'd probably need an extension to actually hide the Notification object in Javascript so that code breaks when the site tries to use it.

This extension does that. (Only tested that it hides the object. Didn't test if it fixes any sites bugging you about notifications.)

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@radharc That is what I said, that is not a notification request but just some JavaScript pop-up and that's why disabling desktop notifications don't block them.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Thank you for the helpfull replies, I blocked javascript in the culprit sites and problem solved.