[SOLVED] I keep getting this message about a Google Chrome Update

[maybl8]

Every so often I see what I would call a pop up notification in the upper right of my screen about a google chrome update .
Problem is I don't have chrome installed on my Laptop.
I am running Manjaro Linux on this Laptop.
Let me know where to turn this off. I have failed to find where it is coming from.
Thanks

[DoctorG]

@maybl8 Your Vivaldi is 6.9.3447.41 (see Vivaldi menu Help → About)?

[maybl8]

Vivaldi	6.9.3447.41 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit) 
Revision	cda5f520ec78f1a73bf80a38c3cffd3efb98a60b
OS	Linux
JavaScript	V8 12.8.374.26
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Command Line	/usr/bin/vivaldi-stable --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --save-page-as-mhtml
Executable Path	/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi
Profile Path	/home/demo/.config/vivaldi/Default
Variations Seed Type	Null

[mib2berlin]

@maybl8
Hi, can you try to catch a screen shot of such a popup?
Never saw this and I have Chrome installed on Opensuse.

Cheers, mib

[maybl8]

[yngve]

@maybl8 That is not Vivaldi saying there is a new Google version, it is the site themewaves.com popping up a notification to you about that.

You may have given that site permission to push notifications to you, or you may have installed an extension from them. You can remove that permission in the site settings for that site.

Note: I am not sure if this is a real helpful tip from a valid site you find helpful, or if it is an attempt to get you to install some kind of malware pretending to be an update of that particular product. The "Click Update Now" text is suspicious IMO.

It is worth noting that both Vivaldi and Chrome normally perform automatic updates that are applied when you restart the browser; Vivaldi will display an "restart needed" information beside the address bar, Chrome may have other mechanisms.

[maybl8]

I found it in the settings under website permissions.
I deleted it.
I don't know how that got in there.

[Pathduck]

@yngve Shenanigans like this is why notifications should be blocked by default and I wish Vivaldi would be the first to do this.

[yngve]

@Pathduck AFAIK the user have to approve the notifications in a permission dialog saying "<this site> want to send/show you notifications", (or something similar); they cannot be enabled automatically.

[maybl8]

Who knows I might have allowed something. I will be watching more closely from now on.

[Pathduck]

@yngve Yes the default in all browsers is Ask. It should be Block.

Scammy sites always find ways to trick unwary users.

"Want to watch sexy times video? Click Allow to continue!"

Result: site spams user with scams and malicious downloads, user blames browser...

These things should be banned.