Google Chrome may soon remove permissions for websites you haven’t visited in a while

The feature could come in handy if you granted a website permission to send notification or access to your camera or microphone and forgot about it.

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The feature is already available on the desktop version of Chrome. (Image Source: Reuters)

Google Chrome, one of the most popular internet browsers on mobile and desktop is getting a new feature that will automatically revoke website permissions. Spotted in the Chrome Canary for Android, the new functionality is handy if you have granted some website permission to send notifications, access the microphone or camera but forgot about it.

According to a post by Leopeva64 on X/Twitter, the new feature appears as a new toggle named “Automatically remove permissions” under Site Settings and as the name suggests, lets Chrome automatically remove website permissions that you haven’t checked in quite some time. This is useful for users who previously granted notification permissions to a website they no longer check but forgot to revoke it.

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Chrome for Android now also has an option to remove permissions from sites you haven’t visited recently (in Canary), this option was added to the desktop version a long time ago:https://t.co/Upk0gD5zNT pic.twitter.com/2Yaq8mMLGi

— Leopeva64 (@Leopeva64) July 2, 2024

To give you a quick recap, the feature has been available on the Chrome desktop for a long time now, but this is the first time it appeared on the mobile version of the app. While the feature is currently in experimental, chances are pretty high that it will appear on the stable channel with Chrome 128, which is coming sometime next month.

Apart from the option to automatically remove website permissions, Google also seems to be testing a new option that lets you decide how long a tab can remain inactive before the browser moves it to the “Inactive tabs” section of the app.