Fighting notification spam in Microsoft Edge Web site notifications are great for staying up to date on your favorite webapps, but they can also be used to spam you with messages that can be unwanted or even misleading. We’ve made changes to help customers avoid these spammy messages and increase their peace of mind.Edge now blocks prompts like these from unfamiliar sites to help protect users from aggressive fake advertising.Sites intending to spam visitors will try to trick users to allow notifications, like in the example above. This site is really trying to get permission to show spammy notifications. Within minutes, this site pushed dozens of fake warnings, all trying to trick victim users into buying software. While these notifications don’t cause direct harm on their own, they can be unsettling and some customers don’t know how to disable them. [ more… ]