Lessnotifications.com Hijacker - How to remove

Lessnotifications.com wants to help you get rid of annoying pop-up ads that come through hijacked notifications. To do this, it asks to be installed on your browser as an extension and to take over your search engine. Here, Lessnotifications.com is acting like a browser hijacker. While it does help you manage your notifications by opening the notification settings on your screen, it does not help you actually block them. Also, it takes over your searches so that it can monetize them.

About Lessnotifications.com:

Threat type	Browser hijacker.
Problems with Lessnotifications.com	It hijacks your search engine and allows advertisers to display their ads.
Alternatives to Less Notifications	Open the notification settings page in your browser yourself, with no extensions needed.
How to remove Lessnotifications.com	Uninstall Less Notifications and other unwanted extensions, check your computer for malware (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others).

What is Lessnotifications.com?

An unnecessary extension

Lessnotifications.com has been getting very popular. It promotes a browser extension called Less Notifications – an add-on meant to help deal with unwanted notifications.

As you can guess by its name, Lessnotifications.com offers to help you get rid of annoying notification spam. Sites like Mediakick.biz abuse notifications to spam users with an unending stream of unwanted ads – and this is the kind of issue that Lessnotifications.com aims to help people with.

First, you have to install Less Notifications from the Chrome Web Store. Then, it can start working.

So, how does Lessnotifications.com help? Well, by opening notification settings in your browser. The page that is accessible by going to your Settings -> Privacy and security -> Site settings -> Notifications. The same page that everyone can open without any extensions.

When managing notifications, you can block or add individual sites, as well as disable all notifications or make them quieter and less intrusive.

Another way to access your notification settings:

• Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Edge (Chromium) – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.

In the end, Lessnotifications.com is mostly useless. It would have been more useful if it had just posted notification managing instructions. But instead, it wants to be installed on people’s browsers. I wonder why that is.

A browser hijacker

Lessnotifications.com is a commercial product that makes money by displaying ads to its users.

First of all, Lessnotifications.com replaces your search settings. That way, when you try to search the internet through the web browser where Lessnotifications.com is installed, it can decide what results you see.

This is not good for your privacy (as your search queries are captured by potentially unreliable websites) or your search experience (as the search sites that Lessnotifications.com promotes may not be very good).

It’s only good for Lessnotifications.com because it gets to make money off of this.

Browser hijacking is as much of a problem as notification hijacking. So, it’s a little funny that Lessnotifications.com would cause one while helping you solve another.

Lessnotifications.com had siblings, most notably NOtifications Manager extension that was very similar in how it worked. Some versions of this extension got removed from the Chrome Web Store, and the remaining ones have fewer users than Lessnotifications.com.

How to remove Lessnotifications.com

It’s recommended to remove the Less Notifications extension from your browser. It’s easy enough to block unwanted push notifications without it and there’s no reason to suffer having your search engine hijacked.

You can uninstall Lessnotifications.com from the extension section (click the puzzle button to the right of your address bar) or from the extensions page that you can find in your browser settings.

Notification spammers spread malware. Bundlers and infected installers spread potentially unwanted browser extensions. It’s possible that there’s adware or malware other than Lessnotifications.com on your computer.

If you have issues with notification spam, hijackers, and browser redirects, scan your device with an antivirus tool, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and other programs. If they detect malware, remove it.

Automatic Malware removal tools

Remove unwanted extensions

TopRemoving Lessnotifications.com Hijacker from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Lessnotifications.com Hijacker. Click on the trash bin icon next to Lessnotifications.com Hijacker or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Lessnotifications.com Hijacker, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Lessnotifications.com Hijacker from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Lessnotifications.com Hijacker. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Lessnotifications.com Hijacker or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.