Google Chrome to limit push notification subscriptions to 90 days

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Google Chrome is finally dandy downwardly on websites abusing push notifications. Chrome is calculation a new feature #Button-Subscription-With-Expiration-Fourth dimension backside chrome://flags that will limit push notification subscriptions to 90 days, TheWindowsClub has learned. This flag will enable Push Subscriptions to support an expiration time.

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At the time of writing this article, this flag is not available in the updated Chrome Canary. But every bit per Chromium Gerrit commit, it has been successfully rebased and submitted to the updated Google Chrome Canary 86. Perhaps the work is still in progress and we can expect this experimental feature flag to be implemented to future Chrome Canary builds in the coming days.

"This CL enables Push Subscriptions to support a expiration time, set by Chrome in push_messaging_constants.h (currently 90 days)," the description reads.

"This feature is disabled by default, so to try it out you must set up –enable-features= PushSubscriptionWithExpirationTime."

Co-ordinate to Chromium developers, this volition add together expiration time (90 days) when subscribing to push notifications and in the subscribe method itself. This particular characteristic will Laissez passer expiration time attribute to glimmer.

"The expirationTime attribute will be generated through the push service. When getting information technology back in the SubscriptionCallback (null is valid), it needs to be passed down to the blink layer."

Chrome is likely to implement certain UI changes that will prompt users to set their button notification subscription to expire after a specific period. It remains to be seen whether or non users tin can customize the time frame. First things get-go, information technology looks like this feature will clearly communicate subscription expiry when push notifications are subscribed for the offset time.

There are several parties involved in the entire process. Once users subscribe to notifications, information most subscription expiry will be retrieved from the app_identifier and sent dorsum as a callback to PushMessagingManager. Chrome will shop expiration time in PushMessagingAppIdentifier. However, this has non been implemented yet. That said, this feature is actively under development.

Once this flag is available, y'all can enable it on Google Chrome Canary.

How to enable the Button Subscription With Expiration Time flag in Chrome

Open Chrome Canary
Open chrome://flags
Locate Push button Subscription With Expiration Time
Fix the flag to Enable immediately when a tab is hidden using the drop-downward menu
Relaunch Chrome.

To summarize, this characteristic will add death to subscriptions at the time of subscribing to notifications. Meanwhile, Chrome has to decide where to save expiration time on the user agent side. Well, this characteristic will be optional and information technology will exist up to users to decide whether or not they want their push subscriptions to expire after 90 days.

Chromium developers have been actively working on this characteristic since final calendar month. TheWindowsClub has spotted several Chromium Gerrit commits that ostend the development.

Nosotros will update this article every bit before long as this experimental feature flag #Button-Subscription-With-Expiration-Fourth dimension is available under chrome://flags.

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