Chrome to use AI to combat spammy notifications it created

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)