After March 7, 2019, notifications for Google web products will no longer be accessible from the navigation bar.
[WayBack] Manage your notifications – Google Account Help has more details, but it does not look good.
More Google stuff is dying, almost every month now. For a list of dying products see: [WayBack] didgoogleshutdown.com
Given more is dying, and the increased lack of confidence many people have in Google, more people are abandoning Google. More on that in a future post.
For now: [WayBack] “Manage your Notifications”: After March 7, 2019, notifications for Google web products will no longer be accessible from the navigation bar. If you’d l… – Edward Morbius – Google+
“Manage your Notifications”: After March 7, 2019, notifications for Google web products will no longer be accessible from the navigation bar. If you’d like to receive similar notifications in the future, you can update the notification settings for your individual Google products.
As usual, it’s not clear whether or not this will affect the notifications widget on G+ itself. Google’s standards for clarity in exposition remain uncorrupted. Which is to say: entirely inadequate.
Otherwise, the article addresses Google Photos, Hangouts Chat, and Google+ (G Suite users).
Update: Further close reading suggests that Consumer Google+ will lose Notifications on March 7:
Note: Google+ notifications are available for G Suite users only.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/9231049
Via: [WayBack] “Manage your Notifications”: After March 7, 2019, … – Lars Fosdal – Google+
–jeroen