How do I turn off these pop-ups?

[kimmer]

On my iMac, more and more sites have a pop-up window that seems to be attached to the page, asking if they can send me alerts. (see attachment) Is there a way to turn this off? It's driving me crackers, and I'm already on the edge as it is--I don't need any more help. 🤪

FWIW: brand new iMac, running Monterey (12.12.1), using Safari version 15.3 (17612.4.9.1..

Thanks for helping me save my sanity. 😂

[jchuzi]

Go to Safari > Preferences > Websites and select Pop-up Windows to view your settings. As a shortcut, you can customize the Safari toolbar (via View > Customize Toolbar) to include the Website Preferences icon.

I assume that you haven't done the above, but if you have, please tell us what else you have tried.

[Xairbusdriver]

You might want to see if Monterey also has a "Notifications" item in the Websites list. That allows you to Deny or Allow sites that have 'asked' for permission to show alerts in Notification Center. I assume that "Notification Center" is the Notification system of the entire OS.

Lastly (is that a reel wurd!), you can try turning all notifications OFF in System Prefs->Notifications->Safari: "Allow Notifications". However, you may miss important requests at your front/side/rear doors!

[kimmer]

Go to Safari > Preferences > Websites and select Pop-up Windows to view your settings. As a shortcut, you can customize the Safari toolbar (via View > Customize Toolbar) to include the Website Preferences icon.

I assume that you haven't done the above, but if you have, please tell us what else you have tried.

This shows that several of the offending sites are listed as either “Block and Notify” or “Block,” which makes me think these lovely “can we pester you” notifications are coded to ignore Safari’s preferences.

I noticed that at the bottom of the pref window it was set to the default for “When visiting other websites: Block and Notify” — so I switched that to Block. Of course, now I’ll have to visit certain sites (like here) and set them to Allow. Obviously I didn't notice this when I set up my new iMac as I didn't transfer anything over, instead I used a totally brand new clean install. Thanks for reminding me.

You might want to see if Monterey also has a "Notifications" item in the Websites list. That allows you to Deny or Allow sites that have 'asked' for permission to show alerts in Notification Center. I assume that "Notification Center" is the Notification system of the entire OS.

Lastly (is that a reel wurd!), you can try turning all notifications OFF in System Prefs->Notifications->Safari: "Allow Notifications". However, you may miss important requests at your front/side/rear doors!

All I saw in the system prefs of Monterey was a turn all notifications off, and I don’t want to go that route.

Thanks to both of you. Hopefully this adjustment will work.

[Xairbusdriver]

Of course, now I’ll have to visit certain sites (like here) and set them to Allow

I don’t know of any Notifications sent by TS, except New Member requests which are emails and only go to Admins. You might want to check the ‘offending’ sites and see if any have settings that may be set, by default, to accept/allow “notifications”.

Secondly, you might set all the ‘offending’ sites to plain “Block”. The “Block and Notify” would seem to have, at least, the type of pop-up you posted. Some may consider the message you received to be preferable to a full-blown notification that the site has some earth-shaking message they want you to be made (painfully) aware of!!!

Frankly, I don’t have any sites that try to notify me of anything. Even YouTube simply shows  no more than a little icon when one of subscribed channels has a new vid.

[kimmer]

I noticed that at the bottom of the pref window it was set to the default for “When visiting other websites: Block and Notify” — so I switched that to Block.

Thanks to both of you. Hopefully this adjustment will work.

An update: changing the setting to BLOCK works for some sites, but not others. I have no answer on how to fix this, other than to live with it. Not worth spending any more time on at all.

[Xairbusdriver]

no answer on how to fix this, other than to live with it.

from the ad agency back rooms: "Hurray! Another one has surrendered!!"

At least you tried. After you started this thread, I did see a couple of these "requests". Might find something useful I could do with AppleScript... or just a keyboard shortcut to send a "Nope! Not now nor ever!" message.

Seems a constant battle between intrusions and attempts to block them. Such is life.