Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome

What happened

To defend against these threats, Chrome is launching warnings of unwanted notifications on Android. This new feature operates with on-device machine learning to detect and warn you about potentially deceptive or spammy notifications, giving you an extra level of control over the information displayed on your device.

Notifications in Chrome are a useful feature to keep up with updates from your favorite sites. How It Works Chrome operates with a local, on-device machine learning model to analyze notification content.

This model identifies notifications that are likely to be unwanted. The model is trained on the textual contents of the notification, like the title, body, and action button texts.

Key facts

• This new feature — uses: on-device machine learning to detect and warn you about potentially deceptive or spammy notifications, giving you an extra level of control over the information displayed on your device
• How It Works Chrome — uses: a local, on-device machine learning model to analyze notification content