News Summary

• Google’s Chrome web browser is about to become much less noisy.
• On Friday, the technology giant announced a new feature that will automatically disable browser notifications for the websites you haven’t interacted with recently.
• The feature will launch on Chrome on Android and on desktop.
• The company tacitly admits that browser notifications, as designed, might have been a bad idea, saying that its own data shows users receive a high volume of notifications but rarely interact with them.
• Less than 1% of all notifications receive any interactions from users, notes Google.