{"id":242570,"date":"2026-08-12T05:14:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/google-says-chrome-cuts-7-billion-unwanted-android-notifications-a-day-to-fight-abuse"},"modified":"2026-08-12T05:14:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:14:42","slug":"google-says-chrome-cuts-7-billion-unwanted-android-notifications-a-day-to-fight-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/google-says-chrome-cuts-7-billion-unwanted-android-notifications-a-day-to-fight-abuse","title":{"rendered":"Google says Chrome cuts 7 billion unwanted Android notifications a day to fight abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-says-chrome-cuts-7-billion-unwanted-android-notifications-a-day-to-fight-abuse2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google says Chrome\u2019s anti-abuse systems reduced unwanted notifications on Android by more than 7 billion per day during the first quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In a new<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.google\/security\/the-multi-layered-defenses-that-harden-chrome-against-abusive-notifications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> blog post<\/a>, Google argues that notification abuse has increasingly been used to distribute scams, malware, phishing attempts, and fraudulent payment requests.<\/p>\n<p>To reduce the abuse, Google developed a \u201cSwiss cheese\u201d defense model, where several overlapping systems try to stop abuse at different stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google says Chrome\u2019s anti-abuse systems reduced unwanted notifications on Android by more than 7 billion per day during the first quarter of 2026. In a new blog post, Google argues that notification abuse has increasingly been used to distribute scams, malware, phishing attempts, and fraudulent payment requests. To reduce the abuse, Google developed a \u201cSwiss [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}