How to get rid of new notification icon

[sdifox]

You want to see what is even stupider than the bell? When you block it with adblock, it is still there hidden so you still can't click on the arrows lol.

So I blocked the invisible one.

And I still couldn't click on the arrows.

So I blocked another invisible element.

Such terrible design.

I didn't have to block it manually at home. Firewall with DSNBL took care of it

 

[ElFenix]

not on the work computer tho ABP is blocking something

 

[sdifox]

not on the work computer tho ABP is blocking something

It's OneSignal.

 

[ElFenix]

It's OneSignal.

i'll turn that off on privacy badger at home

 

[purbeast0]

It's OneSignal.

LOL.

So this is an external service they are actually paying for?

https://onesignal.com/pricing

Wow...

 

[Muse]

I have a bell in the bottom right and it says when I hover over it with my mouse cursor it that I have blocked notifications. I access that and it says Unblock Notifications. Fine, but nothing on it is active, I can't click anything. I see nothing in my account, nowhere where I can unblock notifications. I can't remember doing anything that would have blocked them in the first place. The notification at the bottom right indicates it's involved with www.onesignal.com and is multi-platform. I've never heard of them, have no idea why they are involved with Anandtech and my account in particular and don't know how to deal with this. I DO LIKE NOTIFICATIONS! What's going on with this???

 

[Muse]

Here's what the graphic looks like when I click the bell in the lower right portion of my Firefox window when I'm at Anandtech Forums now:

 

[Spacehead]

About 4 posts down from this one:

How to get rid of new notification icon

I turned off notification eons ago. But today I am getting this red bell icon on my screen all the time telling me to turn on notification. What gives? I would like to know how to get rid of it.

forums.anandtech.com

Thread in OT:

LOL @ the latest "feature" on these forums.

I'm talking about that big ass red bell on the bottom of the right side of the screen, that actually covers a button on the forum list. Jesus christ whoever is in charge of this forums is just trying to make an already dead forum even deader. Thanks for letting me know that I blocked...

forums.anandtech.com

I haven't had any issues with this so i haven't kept up on if there's a fix or not.

 

[Muse]

I managed to get rid of that bell after a lot of putzing around. One thing that was necessary was restarting my browser, Firefox. I also messed with a setting I accessed by clicking the padlock icon to the left of the URL bar, before that restart. I turned on notifications. Hopefully, I won't be bugged but that. I remember being bugged by frequent notifications from Anandtech concerning stuff outside of the forums. That I didn't like. So far I don't see that today, though. I am again getting notifications of new posts to threads I'm subscribed to, also reactions to my posts, which are things I really like.

 

[NTMBK]

How the hell do you get rid of this bell on phone?

 

[NTMBK]

I don't want notifications. I don't want this bell.

 

[Muse]

I don't want notifications. I don't want this bell.

Well, I got rid of the bell and turned notifications on in the same actions. So far so good, nothing's annoying me. Have no idea what caused the problem to pop up a couple days ago.

 

[Spacehead]

Well, I got rid of the bell and turned notifications on in the same actions. So far so good, nothing's annoying me. Have no idea what caused the problem to pop up a couple days ago.

I wonder if the problem was if you have nothing checked under "Receive a notification when someone…" is when the bell shows up. Checking a few of the boxes makes the bell go away???
I wonder if the forums just started using OneSignal & that's why the problems just started?

I don't want notifications. I don't want this bell.

Under "Receive a notification when someone…", try checking the box next to the least annoying option & see if the bell goes away. Unless you have things set to send an email to you, all a notification does is appear in the upper right corner of the forums.

 

[Muse]

I wish "they" would address the aggravating issues at Anandtech Forums that have persisted for many months, in particular bolding interior text spilling all over and below the target, similar issue for other modifications, I'm sure. Also, linking an interior string, likely as not spills all over the remaining message. It took me 1/2 hour today to properly format a message here and it should have taken ONE MINUTE! MADNESS, I TELL YOU! Someone in this forum said "next release" ... when the hell is that going to be?

 

[AdamK47]

I've been told through a reliable source that this is an annoyance measure made to entice people into enabling notifications. This way they can track people and show them targeted ads. It's also meant to get people to keep coming back through notifications which in turn increases revenue. It's meant to test a persons tolerance so that future intrusions, such as increased monitization through more ad placements, can occur.

 

[esquared]

@jpishgar
@jsimenhoff
Can you guys address this?
This big-assed bell makes it hard
to navigate. Especially for mod duties.
Please read this thread.

 

[sdifox]

I've been told through a reliable source that this is an annoyance measure made to entice people into enabling notifications. This way they can track people and show them targeted ads. It's also meant to get people to keep coming back through notifications which in turn increases revenue. It's meant to test a persons tolerance so that future intrusions, such as increased monitization through more ad placements, can occur.

All it is going to do is to annoy me enough to switch browser on my phone to one that blocks scripts and ads just for this site.

 

[Muse]

All it is going to do is to annoy me enough to switch browser on my phone to one that blocks scripts and ads just for this site.

Ah, you post on a phone. That explains your characteristic terseness. I had figured it was because you have weak typing skills.

 

[sdifox]

Ah, you post on a phone. That explains your characteristic terseness. I had figured it was because you have weak typing skills.

I am equally terse posting from desktop xd

 

[sdifox]

Brave browser installed. No Bell of Annoyance, no ads either.

 

[Spacehead]

I've been told through a reliable source that this is an annoyance measure made to entice people into enabling notifications. This way they can track people and show them targeted ads. It's also meant to get people to keep coming back through notifications which in turn increases revenue. It's meant to test a persons tolerance so that future intrusions, such as increased monitization through more ad placements, can occur.

I'm a missing something here? The notifications is see are on the forums only.

Go into your account, click on "Preferences", scroll down to "Receive a notification when someone…", check whichever boxes you want.
When you come to the forums there's a red icon at the top of the page say if someone "Quotes your message:"

Are you guys getting some other notification?

 

[Muse]

I'm a missing something here? The notifications is see are on the forums only.

Go into your account, click on "Preferences", scroll down to "Receive a notification when someone…", check whichever boxes you want.
When you come to the forums there's a red icon at the top of the page say if someone "Quotes your message:"

Are you guys getting some other notification?

Yeah, it was something else. It presents itself as a bell like the one in the top right but it's in the BOTTOM right... and it's bigger, about maybe 2x as big by area and a different color. IIRC, it's brown. When you hover your mouse over it you get that crazy message and I couldn't make out how to deal with it. Meantime, I had none of the notifications I did want, i.e. when someone quotes you or a thread you're subscribed to has a fresh post. Mine went away after I fiddled for an hour or two with various things. Can't remember exactly right now, maybe I posted upwards in the thread.

 

[sdifox]

I'm a missing something here? The notifications is see are on the forums only.

Go into your account, click on "Preferences", scroll down to "Receive a notification when someone…", check whichever boxes you want.
When you come to the forums there's a red icon at the top of the page say if someone "Quotes your message:"

Are you guys getting some other notification?

It rears its ugly head when you block website notification in your browser. Symptom



My solution was to install Brave Browser, that way they don't even get the pennies I provided when I used Chrome and got ads.

 

[Muse]

It rears its ugly head when you block website notification in your browser. Symptom
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My solution was to install Brave Browser, that way they don't even get the pennies I provided when I used Chrome and got ads.

Is there a downside to Brave Browser? Never heard of it before your posts of yesterday or so.

 

[sdifox]

Is there a downside to Brave Browser? Never heard of it before your posts of yesterday or so.

No idea. I only use it for this website