Earlier this year, Microsoft Edge was updated with a new feature that hides pesky browser notification dialog boxes that are commonly used by news publishers, social media platforms, and websites to ...

Although notifications have been around since the earliest days of desktop computing, the smartphone has probably made them even more pervasive and invasive. The practice has even crept into other non ...

Website notifications are a plague on the modern internet. Typically, they ask for your permission to receive automatic updates from specific sites, but many people just find them to be an annoyance ...

Microsoft Edge version 88 will be gaining a new feature called "adaptive notification requests", using 'the wisdom of the crowd' to take a more balanced approach to browser notification alerts from ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new adaptive notification requests feature on Microsoft Edge. The feature studies how people respond to notification requests to decide which requests to show going forward.

Microsoft is now using crowdsourcing to determine whether to show a site's website subscription dialog prompt in the Microsoft Edge web browser. Websites have increasingly started to show prompts to ...

Back in July 2020, Microsoft detailed the efforts it was taking to make browser notifications less annoying in Edge. The firm enabled what it called “quiet notification requests”, a feature that ...