Trending on Redit ??? [Solved]

[bobbee]

The notifications box used to have a different look, It changed to a square box after one of my updates.

I'll have to take a screen cap when I see it again.

Depending on if the update changes things.

[bobbee]

https://imgur.com/GIlX1yD.png

The little blue box where it says Power manager.

Now it sometimes says trending on redit. And instead of disappearing automatically, I have to click on it to remove the notification.

[JayM]

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 2: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo/ buster test

You've permanently enabled the MX test repo and may have b0rked your installation. Read "How To Break Your System" linked in my signature. If you want to install something from the test repo use MX Package Installer.

Have you downloaded and installed any apps from the Internet?

[bobbee]

Have you downloaded and installed any apps from the Internet?

Just from the repositories, a few games (most of which I have removed), a morse code thing, newsboat, mpv, and maybe some other stuff.

The notification box changed quite a while ago and I didn't think anything of it. The redit thing, just started in the last couple days.

so maybe one of these softwares had some sort of virus?

[bobbee]

I knew enough to not permanently enable the MX Test repostitory.
I have browsed it a couple times. But I never intentionally enabled it.


I guess I need a new install, that sucks, so much work.

[uncle mark]

But we never heard.... what IS trending on Reddit? Anything good?

[JayM]

Newsboat may be what's causing the Reddit notifications as it's an RSS/Atom newsfeed reader, and Reddit may be one of its default feeds. Check its settings.( BTW Newsboat is available in MX Package Installer, Stable Repo, so no need to go out and download it from somewhere.)

I suggest you hold off on reinstalling MX for a bit, as I just remembered that the MX Test repo may have been set up so the aoutoamtic updates don'[t update from it. Wait for one of the developers to confirm this as you may be OK.

[andyprough]

This is a very popular complaint about the Google Chrome web browser, that it pops up notifications about "trending on reddit" even when people have not turned on these notifications.

I will assume that the OP is using Google Chrome browser. This is apparently the step to turn off that behavior: "Try going to chrome://settings/content/notifications to see what sites you have allowed notifications for."

I hope this helps. If the problem is with Chrome, then it is not an MX problem. I would recommend moving away from Chrome, which is a privacy nightmare, and going with a privacy-centered browser like Brave or Vivaldi. Both Brave and Vivaldi work just like Chrome and will allow you to use your extensions from the Chrome web store.

[junoluna]

I assumed the OP was using brave browser from looking at his repos...

Then again I have lots of browsers installed but have been sticking to Vivaldi of late

[agnivo007]

Well, one thing I must say, he'd surely win the "open tabs count" challenge! Reminds me of 90s : hijacked browsers having too many 3rd party toolbars which looked too colorful and too less place to browse on the page.