Why am I suddenly getting a never-ending avalanche of pop-up ads?

Discussion in 'PriusChat Website Questions' started by gdanner, Aug 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM.

  1. gdanner

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    Recently there are continuous pop-up ads whenever I visit Prius Chat.
    They seem to come from Google.
    But I view many different forums on a variety of topics. None of the other forums blanket my screen with pop-ups.

    Any suggestions for reducing this?
     
    #1 gdanner, Aug 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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    add a popup blocker to your preferred browser.
    I run 3, though it breaks links and needs to be turned off when accessing some government sites.
     
    #2 BiomedO1, Aug 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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    Easy, your ad blocker didn’t load. :)

    this site single handledly motivated me to always run an ad blocker.
     
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    Ka-Block!
     
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    Or PriusChat was somehow placed on the blockers' exceptions list. Turned-Off for the PriusChat site.

    Like I said, I run several - so if something flips one of them off the others would pick them up. I review my exceptions list every quarter - they should always be empty. Easy Peasy.
     
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    Problem solved.
    For years I used Ublock (a Chrome extension) but not long ago it became incompatible with Chrome and got itself forcibly uninstalled.
    I didn't observe a whole lot of annoying issues until recently.
    So now I'm trying "AdBlock" (another Chrome extension)
     
    #6 gdanner, Aug 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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    I use adblock plus or ultimate. The chrome browser tends to scrape a lot of information, unless you run it in privacy mode.
     
    #7 BiomedO1, Aug 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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