Following up on our earlier weblog, Tips on how to Cease the Popups, McAfee Labs noticed a pointy lower within the variety of misleading push notifications reported by McAfee customers working Microsoft’s Edge browser on Home windows.
Such browser-delivered push messages seem as toaster pop-ups within the tray above the system clock and are supposed to trick customers into taking numerous actions, similar to putting in software program, buying a subscription, or offering private data.
Upon additional investigation, this main drop appears to be related to a change within the conduct of the Edge browser with two notable enhancements over older variations.
First, when customers go to web sites identified to ship misleading push notifications, Edge blocks authorization prompts that would trick customers into opting-in to obtain popups:
Second, when undesirable popups do happen, it’s now simpler than ever to disable them, on a per-site foundation. Customers can merely click on the three dots (…) on the suitable of the notification and select to “Flip off all notifications for” the area liable for the popup.
It is a nice enchancment over the earlier expertise of getting to manually navigate browser settings to attain the specified end result.
Earlier this yr, 9TO5Google reported a Chrome code change could also be indicative of an analogous crack down by Google on nefarious popups.
One can hope Google will observe Microsoft’s instance to enhance browser safety and value.
