#TechBytes: How to disable those annoying Google Chrome notifications

For years, Chrome has been offering the option to enable notifications for various websites.

The feature has been designed to let users get direct alerts from the sites they follow regularly.

For instance, if you follow news from NewsBytes, you can enable notifications and get alerted about every fresh update/story from us - even when you are on some other site or app.

While the feature is handy, it also comes with a major problem: erroneous activation.

Basically, the prompt to enable notifications for websites appears in such a way that you can hit the Allow button in a hurry, without realizing what had happened.

This can easily happen for different sites, which may then flood your PC with notifications you never asked for.

The only way to avoid this problem is disabling notifications - either completely or site-wise - via Chrome settings.

To disable notifications for specific websites, including the ones you enabled mistakenly, head over to browser Settings after clicking on the three-dotted icon on the upper right corner and select Site Settings option under the Privacy and security tab.

Once you are in site settings, select the Notifications option under Permissions.

On the landing page, head over to the Allow section and look for the site you don't want notifications from.

Next, click on the three-dotted button on the right and select Remove to stop that site's notifications.

Then, the same can be done for all the sites to turn off notifications completely.