alt Hacker NewsDespite using Firefox, I keep chrome installed in case there is a website that requires it. I have recently started receiving Windows 11 notifications from Chrome, advertising their new AI features. This happens one two different devices. I haven't launch chrome on either of them for some time.
It is maddening how much they are pushing this useless and inaccurate garbage on us.
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A user-agent spoofer will help with most of those "Chrome required" websites.
Exactly, I was also pretty unamused by Google pushing product ads into system notifications. Not the first software I stop using due to system notification ads!
Mentioned it in an off-topic company chat but the director has gotten tired of people thinking badly of Google now that we're using Google Workspace and he looks for every parallel there is to be drawn to e.g. Mozilla ("doesn't Thunderbird also show a donations call from time to time?" Yeah, when you open and use the actual program, and they are ultimately a non-profit) but the chat was dead after that... Felt a bit that I was the only person who was fairly perplexed by a legit business pushing ads in notifications
you can solve the google problem: cd C: && find -type f | grep google | sudo xargs rm
and also the win11 problem:
format C:
Ungoogled Chromium is what I keep installed for that reason. There if I need it as a browser, but otherwise does absolutely nothing else.