Everyone should be able to enjoy a distraction-free browsing experience. Yet popup ads can be a constant nuisance. Enter popup blockers. These software tools or browser extensions are designed to ...

Do Notepad popups represent a security risk or are they simply another way for spammers & marketers to annoy us? Because of a design flaw in Internet Explorer, Notepad popup windows can be displayed ...

Educational pop-up windows will now appear on Facebook and Instagram to stop the spread of anti-vaccine misinformation, according to CNN. Facebook, which owns Instagram, announced the new feature Sept ...

Not all pop-up windows are evil spam, some of them remain genuinely useful. Here's how to get Safari on macOS Monterey to show you the ones you actually want, while still shielding you from all of the ...

Microsoft and Google have been waged in a years-long battle around Google Search, Bing, Chrome, and Edge. And it just continues, with Microsoft now pushing Bing heavily on Google Chrome users through ...

Companies call them prompts. Techies call them nags. Around the internet, the rest of us just call them pop-ups—and we hate them. Nevertheless, pop-up windows are an endless bane of online life, ...

You're browsing different websites when suddenly a pop-up window declares, “Your computer was locked” and tells you to call “Windows engineering” at a toll ...

You might have experienced this: You're browsing the web on your phone and a pop-up window appears on the screen, claiming you’ve won a prize or that you have a virus and you need to call a tech ...