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  One of the biggest roadblocks I find to fast web browsing these days is the plethora of annoying notifications that websites offer me. Fortunately, Google Chrome offers a quick and easy way to block them. You've no doubt had this happen countless times already this week.  You browse to a website and you get a notification offering the chance for you to get more notifications. Something like this (although this one is from  a handy test site ): Hate them? Want them gone? Not a problem, if you use Google Chrome! Here's how: Click on the three dots button (top-right of the browser window) Click on  Settings Click on  Advanced From the  Privacy and security  section, click on  Content settings... Click on  Notifications Finally, click on  Ask before sending (recommended)  to change it to  Blocked You're done! Just this one tweak has dramatically streamlined my browsing experience. Try if out for yourself!

  Former and current Mozilla engineers are reaching their boiling points. A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google of intentionally and systematically sabotaging Firefox over the past decade in order to boost Chrome's adoption. He is not the first Firefox team member to come forward and make such accusations in the past eight months; however, his allegations span far beyond current events and accuse Google of carrying out a coordinated plan that involved introducing small bugs on its sites that would only manifest for Firefox users. OOPS AFTER OOPS Johnathan Nightingale , a former General Manager and Vice President of the Firefox group at Mozilla, described these issues as "oopses." "When I started at Mozilla in 2007 there was no Google Chrome, and most folks we spoke with inside [Google] were Firefox fans," Nightingale recollected in a  Twitter thread  on Saturday. "When Chrome launched things got complicated, but not in the way you might

  At the Google Cloud Next conference, Google showcased the next step it's taking to get security keys in the hands of more people Security keys offer one of the most secure authentication methods for logging into an account -- it requires plugging in a physical key. Many people, however, may not want to pay for an extra security device, or they may simply forget to carry it with them. Now, Google is trying to make this authentication method more accessible by enabling any phone running Android 7+ to serve as a security key to protect personal Google accounts and professional Google Cloud accounts. "Think of it like a security key in almost every modern Android phone... a very easy-to-use form factor for over a billion users," Rob Sadowski, Google's Trust and Security marketing lead, told reporters last week. "Having that as your authenticator really makes it easy to use and always available." While any form of two-step verification improves your security, s

  Microsoft alarms Windows 10 users by sending random and misspelled messages through its News app. Microsoft says a "configuration error" in the Windows 10 News app was the cause of users seeing nonsensical notifications that made some of them think their machines had been infected with malware.  Something went wrong last Friday at the Microsoft unit that oversees the Windows 10 News app.    Windows 10 users on Reddit  started to report  seeing "weird" notifications from the Microsoft News app titled 'My Movies', accompanied by the message: "This is a test notification".  It was then followed by the dodgy-looking "Thsi test notification". Some users also received a third notification, simply stating "Test Notification".  The notifications confused users who  couldn't tell  whether it was just a mystery bug or a malware infection, prompting some to consider wiping their machines.  A user on Microsoft's answers forums was