Spam notifications

snoopy48

Hello!

For a few days now I have been receiving spam notifications in the top right corner of the browser window.

I have had before. I could only eliminate it by completely reinstalling vivaldi. Is there another possibility?? Very annoying!

Pesala

@snoopy48 What do these notification say?

snoopy48

The usual ads: lose weight, buy cheap, sex

Pesala

@snoopy48 Run malwarebytes. It has nothing to do with Vivaldi.

Pathduck

Well, could also be a combo of Push Notifications and Service Workers - the plague of the "modern" web.

Unfortunately not obvious how to remove once they've infected the browser.

First go to the URL chrome://settings/content/notifications and see if you've accidentally allowed notifications from some sites. If so click the dots and choose Remove.

Then go to the URL vivaldi://serviceworker-internals and click Unregister for all of the entries just to be sure.

Lastly go to Vivaldi Settings > Webpages and under Default Permissions choose Block for notifications. You don't need that crap.

snoopy48

Hi Pathduck!

Thanks for your advice! Your hints were successfull.

best regards
snoopy48

Pathduck

@snoopy48 Great

I'm interested - did you have both Service Workers and sites allowed for notifications?

BartArdel

@pathduck working now thank you.... another problem when I open vivaldi I get desktop notifications like "somebody send you a 3 pictures, klick it" domain .pt ... i never was there... why i see this spam and how to delete it ?

Pathduck

@bartardel Hi - did you read my post above at all? It's explained there.