# Pop-Up Ads Appearing Despite Membership **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 28, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-up-ads-appearing-despite-membership/738785 "2015-11-28T00:41:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-up-ads-appearing-despite-membership/738785/1 "2015-11-28T00:41:47Z")
I’m a Member and so am not supposed to get ads, but twice this morning an ad for financial services has popped up suddenly. I do have other tabs open, but both times the ad appeared only while I was looking at the Board. And any other sites I have open are usual ones that never send me ads. When it happened once, I thought maybe it was just an anomaly, but then it happened a second time. I think the first one was for debt refinancing and the second for general financial planning. Both a green square taking up a quarter of the screen. Disappeared after I’d moved to another tab and then returned. Any other Members getting this? ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-up-ads-appearing-despite-membership/738785/2 "2015-11-28T01:42:07Z")
No sir, though on occasion (especially after I run a cleaner) I find myself logged out, and thus affected. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-up-ads-appearing-despite-membership/738785/3 "2015-11-28T02:03:55Z")
I wasn’t running a cleaner. Hasn’t happened a third time. Not yet anyway.