This is what it will look like in the future
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 7:17 am
You've probably experienced this before: you visit a website and suddenly its content goes dark and a window appears asking if the website can show you notifications.
You had already started to look around the page, wanted to click on something or started reading - and now you are torn from your thoughts and have to click away the notification in question.
Google wants to curb this annoying phenomenon with version 80 of the Chrome browser. Notifications from websites can be a very useful feature - for example on news sites or especially for sports news.
But not every user wants to use this option, especially since the persistence with which website operators sometimes offer their users this function speaks volumes.
Notifications will of course still be usable. However, the rcs data australia question of whether or not you want to use them will be displayed much less prominently.
Google calls this "Quiet UI" (UI = User Interface). A blog post on this topic shows a screenshot in which the question about notifications appears discreetly as a bar on the side.
Unfortunately, it happens again and again that a new, useful technology is introduced and then misused shortly afterwards, so that it has to be significantly restricted.
Shortly after the release of Windows XP in 2001, the integrated messaging service, which users could use to send notifications to each other within a network, was misused by spammers.
And for several years now, it has happened again and again that users visiting websites - regardless of which web browser or operating system they are using - are fed scripts through dubious advertisements, which then open advertising pages unintentionally some time later ("Congratulations - you've won an iPhone!" or similar).
Now it's the turn of the notification function and is being "put on a leash", so to speak. The providers of other web browsers will probably follow suit sooner or later and also implement a more discreet form of notification.
Chrome 80 can already be downloaded as a beta version; the final version should probably be released in February or March if the current release dates continue.
You had already started to look around the page, wanted to click on something or started reading - and now you are torn from your thoughts and have to click away the notification in question.
Google wants to curb this annoying phenomenon with version 80 of the Chrome browser. Notifications from websites can be a very useful feature - for example on news sites or especially for sports news.
But not every user wants to use this option, especially since the persistence with which website operators sometimes offer their users this function speaks volumes.
Notifications will of course still be usable. However, the rcs data australia question of whether or not you want to use them will be displayed much less prominently.
Google calls this "Quiet UI" (UI = User Interface). A blog post on this topic shows a screenshot in which the question about notifications appears discreetly as a bar on the side.
Unfortunately, it happens again and again that a new, useful technology is introduced and then misused shortly afterwards, so that it has to be significantly restricted.
Shortly after the release of Windows XP in 2001, the integrated messaging service, which users could use to send notifications to each other within a network, was misused by spammers.
And for several years now, it has happened again and again that users visiting websites - regardless of which web browser or operating system they are using - are fed scripts through dubious advertisements, which then open advertising pages unintentionally some time later ("Congratulations - you've won an iPhone!" or similar).
Now it's the turn of the notification function and is being "put on a leash", so to speak. The providers of other web browsers will probably follow suit sooner or later and also implement a more discreet form of notification.
Chrome 80 can already be downloaded as a beta version; the final version should probably be released in February or March if the current release dates continue.