From the «delete defund destroy» department:
Title: Chromium to use “AI” to combat the spam notifications it helped create
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 06:27:53 +0000
Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/142333/chromium-to-use-ai-to-combat-the-spam-notifications-it-helped-create/


Notifications in Chrome are a useful feature to keep up with updates from
your favorite sites. However, we know that some notifications may be spammy
or even deceptive. We’ve received reports of notifications diverting you to download suspicious software, tricking you into sharing personal information
or asking you to make purchases on potentially fraudulent online store
fronts.

To defend against these threats, Chrome is launching warnings of unwanted notifications on Android. This new feature uses on-device machine learning to detect and warn you about potentially deceptive or spammy notifications,
giving you an extra level of control over the information displayed on your device.
↫ Hannah Buonomo and Sarah Krakowiak Criel on the Chromium Blog[1]

So first web browser makers introduce notifications, a feature nobody asked for and everybody hates, and now they’re using “AI” to combat the spam they themselves enabled and forced onto everyone? Don’t we have a name for a business model where you purport to protect your clients from threats you yourself pose?

Turning off notifications is one of the first things I do after installing a browser. I do not ever want any website sending me a notification, nor do I want any of them to ask me for permission to do so. They’re such an obvious annoyance and massive security threat, and it’s absolutely mindboggling to me we just accept them as a feature we have to live with. I genuinely wish browsers like Firefox, which claim to protect your privacy, would just have the guts to be opinionated and rip shit features like this straight out of their browser.

Using “AI” to combat spam notifications instead of just turning notifications
off is peak techbro.

Links:
[1]: https://blog.chromium.org/2025/05/fighting-unwanted-notifications-with.html (link)

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In misc.news.internet.discuss, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

From the «delete defund destroy» department:
Title: Chromium to use “AI” to combat the spam notifications it helped create
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 06:27:53 +0000
Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/142333/chromium-to-use-ai-to-combat-the-spam-notifications-it-helped-create/

Notifications in Chrome are a useful feature to keep up with updates from your favorite sites.

Citation needed.

Elijah
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unless "useful" refers to website owners looking at traffic metrics

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On Sun, 11 May 2025 18:47:43 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:

Citation needed.

Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome
Thursday, May 8, 2025


https://blog.chromium.org/

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In misc.news.internet.discuss, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:

Citation needed.

Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome
Thursday, May 8, 2025

I think you misunderstood me. All notifictions are unwanted. No AI
needed, just kill them all.

Elijah
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and let the bitbucket sort them out

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On Mon, 12 May 2025 20:53:18 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:

I think you misunderstood me. All notifictions are unwanted. No AI
needed, just kill them all.

Oh this

Notifications in Chrome are a useful feature to keep up with updates from
your favorite sites.

<<are a useful feature

Yes, this dude lives in his universe...not ours.

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