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# How to disable the web's most annoying feature
- URL: https://werd.io/how-to-disable-the-webs-most-annoying-feature/
- Published: 2023-07-25T14:08:53.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-25T14:08:53.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:21

Website notifications are a blight. I *never* want a website to be able to notify me about updates; these messages are interruptive, and like the vast majority of app notifications, they tend to be part of some marketing team’s growth strategy rather than a conduit to actually useful information. (Product teams: if your notifications are there to drive traffic to a new feature or a promotion, you’re making the web worse. Stop it.)

Every browser allows you to prevent these notifications from showing up at all, but not all of them make it easy. For example, my primary browser is [Arc](https://arc.net/); I love it, but it doesn’t expose notification preferences in its Settings panel.

Luckily, every browser engine allows you to go straight to its full, advanced settings panel. Here’s how to do it:

**In a Chromium-based browser** (Chrome, Arc, Opera, Microsoft Edge):

Enter `about:settings` in the browser address bar.

![The ](https://old.werd.io/file/64bfd6aae03dda42370329e4)

Search for `notifications` and click on `site settings`.

![Finding notifications in Chromium's settings panel](https://old.werd.io/file/64bfd6d0e03dda42370329e6)

Scroll down to `Notifications` and click through.

![The notifications menu item in Chromium's settings bar](https://old.werd.io/file/64bfd71fe03dda42370329e8)

Then change the settings to the one you’d prefer.

![Notifications in Chromium's settings panel](https://old.werd.io/file/64bfd6fa6125998d3407d604)

**In Firefox**:

Firefox does surface notifications in its settings panel.

Once you’re there, search for `notifications` and then hit the `settings` button next to the Notifications heading.

![Notifications in Firefox's settings panel](https://old.werd.io/file/64bfd74a6125998d3407d606)

Then check the box that says `Block new requests asking to allow notifications`.

![Firefox settings panel showing how to block all web notifications](https://old.werd.io/file/64bfd763ec26fc9e23068692)

*Et voila*! No more annoying pop-up messages. Take that, marketing departments.