Website notifications are a plague on the modern internet. Typically, they ask for your permission to receive automatic updates from specific sites, but many people just find them to be an annoyance ...

Q: I dislike Microsoft's frequent interruptions of my work in Windows 10. How can I keep the Windows 10 news feed from continually popping up when I'm trying to write an e-mail? The news feed window ...

Back in July 2020, Microsoft detailed the efforts it was taking to make browser notifications less annoying in Edge. The firm enabled what it called “quiet notification requests”, a feature that ...

In brief: Microsoft's incessant nagging that you use Edge like some kind of high-pressure car salesman can be intensely annoying. The good news is that these notifications will stop. The bad news is ...