Posted Feb 19, 07:12 pm

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This article will help you easily to stop browsers’ prompts even some unwanted & annoying ad based pop-up when you land on a new or trusted website.

What’s New in Affiliate Advertising?

Recently, a newly developed technology, named Push API, is on the rise. What’s Push API then? With Push API, any site admin or IT geek can send a push even sudden message like the commonly encountered site ads to its visitors or readers. Pay a visit to this official introduction if you wish to get extra tech info.

What Are the Pros and Cons of Push API ?

It could be the fastest & efficient way that informs the visitors and/or readers about the updates like newly published posts.

In the meantime, some bad guys would also try getting the most of such a marketing approach. Example, a starter would get annoyed with some undesired in-text based advertising. As for contextual advertising, this could be really harmful when you’re using a risky or heavily sponsored website. You too would suffer from those ad powered links if your computer has been infected with adware or some other riskware (aka, risky software). Some site even has the ability to record or track your online reading habits even extra info like computer IP! For more case studies, read this blog.

How to Avoid An Unneeded Notification?

For Chrome users, try the following steps given below:

Go to the Settings menu.

Scroll down and hit the "Show advanced settings" link.

Enter the "Content settings" section under Privacy.

Select the "Notifications" part when you see it.

Check the option "Ask when a site wants to show notifications (recommended)" to stop those potentially unwanted items.



You can even modify the whitelist/blacklist feature that meets your own case, show or block notifications.

Firefox 44 readers? Do the following steps:

Copy about:preferences#content and paste that address in your address bar, then press Enter

Click on the "Choose…" button next to notifications on the page.

Additionally, input this command about:config in the address bar and hit the Enter key on your keyboard.

Verify that you want to make further modifications.

Search for dom.push.enabled.

Double-click the preference to set it to FALSE .



(By: Martin Brinkmann@ gHacks.net)

If you are still suffering from unwanted pop-up, possibly misleading alerts/ information on your desktop, you should regularly check out (* keep an eye on) the following settings in your own OS: "Home Page", "Programs list" under Control Panel, and Startup. Detect and remove any newly installed, undesired and/or unknown software in your system, perform a security check later on Safe Mode with Networking only when you have your virus scanner updated to its latest build.