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Anyone else getting these pop ups?

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cultrara
Posts: 5147 - Karma: 46,850
I started getting these today and I'm trying to determine if they are related to NS.

This one opened in a new tab when I clicked on an imgur link on reddit:


And this one popped up when I clicked on a NS thread:
Jul 26 2015 1:34PM
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cultrara
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I'm also running adblock on sites other than NS and still getting them.
Jul 26 2015 1:34PM
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cultrara
Posts: 5147 - Karma: 46,850
Figured it out. I went into my chrome extensions and found several adware extensions that I didn't install.

After deleting those the problem went away. It probably had to do with all those nature videos I was torrenting.
Jul 26 2015 2:15PM
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Mr.Bishop
Posts: 22708 - Karma: 76,628
cultraraFigured it out. I went into my chrome extensions and found several adware extensions that I didn't install.

After deleting those the problem went away. It probably had to do with all those nature videos I was torrenting.


Nature videos eh?
Jul 27 2015 2:48PM
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a_burger
Posts: 5234 - Karma: 20,695
cultraraFigured it out. I went into my chrome extensions and found several adware extensions that I didn't install.

After deleting those the problem went away. It probably had to do with all those nature videos I was torrenting.


keep an eye on your extensions, I had the same issues and it turned out it was all from some program that I had gotten at some point which kept re-installing them repeatedly until I went to a restore point.
Jul 27 2015 9:02PM
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