# Notifications Visible to All Users due to Babble Plugin
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-visible-to-all-users-due-to-babble-plugin/188758
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 30, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-visible-to-all-users-due-to-babble-plugin/188758 "2021-04-30T21:26:54Z")
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### Author:  [@Geoffrey\_Challen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Geoffrey_Challen)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-visible-to-all-users-due-to-babble-plugin/188758/1 "2021-04-30T21:26:54Z")
After applying the latest update this morning all users of our forum seem to be seeing notifications for all forum activity, even private activity or things that didn’t involve them. For example, if I send a PM to another user, every user sees a notification about that PM with the title in their notification area, even if they didn’t send or receive it.
Thankfully users still can’t access the contents of the notification, but even the fact that the titles are visible is extremely problematic.
Here’s an example from my notification area:
Note the notification about “Test PM”. Here is that message (which I can open since I’m an admin):
You can verify that I am neither the sender or the recipient of this PM, so shouldn’t have been notified at all. Note also all of the extra notifications that I’m now receiving since everything is ending up in my notification area, including messages about topics that I have muted or shouldn’t normally be notified about.
I’m not sure what is happening or whether this is due to poor interaction with a plugin. (We use quite a few.) For now I just wanted to report this to see if others are seeing similar behavior.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-visible-to-all-users-due-to-babble-plugin/188758/2 "2021-04-30T21:29:29Z")
Do you use the babble plugin?
> [@Notification Bug due to Babble plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notification-bug/188706):
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> Hi guys, I seem to be having a strange bug where I and all my staff are getting system notifications or notifications of messages that we are not included in. This could be system messages to users or private messages from one user to another! not sure why we are getting these additional notification but this seems to be and issue after the latest update (I hadn’t updated since about 2 weeks prior). Another instance of when this is an issue is I have enabled notifications for all users when an…
> [@Everyone receives all notifications (even PMs) due to Babble plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/everyone-receives-all-notifications-even-pms/188496):
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> Hello all! Last night after upgrading to 2.7.0beta7 ([7568c7a101](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/7568c7a101f8b371f7cbd6018450bf3e2cd72b59)) from test-passed, we have encountered an situation where everyone registered on our forum will receive all notifications on every like/reply/comment. The notifications can’t be dismissed from /u/username/notifications/. This also includes PMs between users (which is a bit problematic, as you can imagine). Luckily they can’t read PMs that aren’t theirs, but they still can see who messaged who with what title. Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@Geoffrey\_Challen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Geoffrey_Challen)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-visible-to-all-users-due-to-babble-plugin/188758/3 "2021-04-30T21:29:53Z")
Yup! That must be it. Time to turn it off again…