Pop-up Ads

Pop-up ads are a form of online advertising on the World Wide Web intended to increase web traffic or capture email addresses. Pop-up ads can be sexually suggestive or offensive in other ways.

Examples:

While on the Internet a pop-up window appears containing an advertisement. Sometimes these advertisements can contain offensive material.

Stay Safe:

Most modern browsers come with pop-up blocking tools; third-party tools tend to include other features such as ad filtering. You can install ad filtering or ad blocking, a service which removes or alters advertising content in a webpage. View a list of popup blocking software...

Additional Resources:

Blocking Pop-ups
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