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Newsbreak.com

Posted: February 3, 2020

Newsbreak.com poses as a website that is able to provide you with local news updates as soon as they first appear online. However, there is one big catch – the website claims that it needs to receive permission to use your Web browser's push notifications. This might not appear like a problem, but we assure you that it is a dire mistake to provide unknown websites with such abilities – they may often abuse them to flood you with marketing content. Newsbreak.com is exactly one of the pages that do this – as soon as you give it permissions to use notifications, it may display regular advertisements for various products, services, websites and affiliate links. While you might see some news updates, it is highly unlikely that they will refer to your local area.

The prompt that asks you to provide Newsbreak.com with permissions to display notifications may appear when you browse low-quality pages that have been paid to promote Newsbreak.com. The advice is you to be extra careful while browsing unknown and non-trustworthy websites since they may sometimes redirect you to 3rd-party pages that may run dubious schemes like the one found on Newsbreak.com.

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