HOW TO BLOCK UNWANTED WEBSITE NOTIFICATIONS ON YOUR MAC
Push notifications were the best thing since sliced bread when they appeared first in Android and later in iOS and iPadOS. Instead of requiring a lot of attention, a notification can appear briefly, is easily dismissed, and can be controlled—you can suppress apps in various ways, from showing them all together all the way to allowing Critical Alerts in some apps for events you absolutely don’t want to miss a message about.
Apple added push notifications to Safari in macOS to let websites access the systemwide notification system because the increasing reliance on web apps (a website that provides an app-like set of features) means you could have a tab open performing tasks that require your attention.
It’s a double-edged sword, though: Spammers, scammers, and assorted thieves and ne’er-do-wells take advantage of any opening to try to part you from your money through lies and fear. A malicious site can leverage push notifications to fill the right edge of the screen with unwanted alerts.
How can this happen? You visit a safe site that, through the vagaries of ad networks, is hosting an advertisement. Either
