How do Chrome Notifications as targeted advertising work?

Does anyone know how Chrome Notifications work? i.e. I occassionally get a notification from chrome pop up in my windows notificaitons from websites I have visited.

Seems like a reasonable way to do targeted advertising. How does it work?

  • is it a paid service
  • How is it triggered, I think I have only visited a couple of sites that I got notifications (maybe I registered and forgot).
  • How does it target me i.e. cookies, some sort of browser id etc?
  • Any cs-cart specific considerations?

Myself (and others) use adblock plus or other services that block notifications or other marketing related things. For more info in regards to Chrome notifications, see this topic: Use notifications to get alerts - Computer - Google Chrome Help

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