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Stop Annoying Pop-Ups in Google Chrome Browser

Ryan M. Raiker, MBA
5 min readJan 19, 2021

At Boxaid, technicians do a lot of virus and malware removal. Sometimes that can be easy to remove a virus or a hijacked browser and sometimes it is a lot of painstaking manual effort. Every now and then customers call in thinking they are infected with malware or a virus because of excessive pop-ups which were very popular with malware several years ago. But the reality is that they are getting notifications from a junky/spammy website they have visited in the past. These notifications can easily be disabled in your browser in just a few steps by stopping the pop-up notifications in settings under Google Chrome.

Some Notifications are Helpful

It might be helpful to have Google Chrome notifications enabled for specific websites or news sites you visit regularly. Some of these notifications will help you get back to the content you like and enjoy. It makes sense, web sites are always looking for you to subscribe to their content and notification feeds, and these are great ways for them to get you back to their site. If you’re anything like the rest of us you want to unsubscribe to these notifications almost as fast as you were duped into pressing the Subscribe button.

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Ryan M. Raiker, MBA
Ryan M. Raiker, MBA

Written by Ryan M. Raiker, MBA

TEDxSpeaker | Consultant | Process Expert | Marketer | Digital Guy | Adjunct Professor & Learner. I write about tech, marketing, business, and more.

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