# What is the name of this Windows 10 (?) feature, and how do I get more of it?

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**Created:** [December 11, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-windows-10-feature-and-how-do-i-get-more-of-it/804198 "2017-12-11T15:10:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-windows-10-feature-and-how-do-i-get-more-of-it/804198/1 "2017-12-11T15:10:34Z")

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I once hit a button on a news website that said something about do I want to get notifications from them, and I now get little, well, notifications from them, on the bottom right of my screen every now and then.

I want to go find similar links from other news sources. What do I google? I tried “news notifications” and there’s a lot of different means of notification that are discussed at various links, but I’m looking for _this specific_ notification service, and I need to know its name.

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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-this-windows-10-feature-and-how-do-i-get-more-of-it/804198/2 "2017-12-11T15:33:50Z")

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What browser are you using? If you’re using the “standard” Microsoft browser, with Windows 10 that’d be Edge.

What you describe sounds like [Web Push Notifications](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/push-notifications/), which is supported on Edge, Firefox, and Chrome. This has to be implemented at the website; you can’t force a website to give you push notifications if they haven’t installed and configured their framework to support it. So if a news website isn’t offering you a notification channel, you can’t get notifications from them. (Assuming I’m guessing right.)