Chrome Optimizations

Marketing driven notifications, popups, and advertising are a minor nuisance to most people, but when you are navigating entirely by voice, they can slow you down significantly or even prevent you from using a site. This page provides some advice for minimizing the impact of aggressive marketing practices.

Third-party Sign-in

Some websites open a third-party sign-in dialog box which must be interacted with before proceeding. These usually give options for signing in to their website using your credentials for Google, Facebook, etc. To disable these, follow these instructions to block sign-in prompts from identity services.

Location Settings

Some websites open a location dialog box which must be interacted with before proceeding. To disable these, follow these instructions to collapse all requests in the address bar. If you do want specific sites to know your location, you can click the site settings icon in the address bar.

Notification Settings

Some websites open a notification dialog box which must be interacted with before proceeding. To disable these, follow these instructions to collapse all requests in the address bar. If you do want specific sites to use popup notifications, you can click the site settings icon in the address bar.

Ad Blockers

The advertising on some sites is so aggressive that they become nearly unusable by voice. Using an ad blocker on these sites can help usability. There are many good ad blockers, but we have tested and recommend uBlock Origin.

For security reasons, you may not want a third party browser extension to have access to all of your browsing data. Rather than providing an extension with access to all sites, you can allow extension access for specific sites. With this approach, you only use the ad blocker on sites with overly aggressive advertising.