# Pop Up Ads

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-up-ads/482786>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 24, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-up-ads/482786 "2009-01-24T15:08:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![SharkB8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@SharkB8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SharkB8)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-up-ads/482786/1 "2009-01-24T15:08:52Z")

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Just a minor gripe, but I’ve noticed, or maybe I should say realized, that whenever I visit the SDMB, I get pop-up ads behind my active browser window that look like [this](http://s456.photobucket.com/albums/qq286/vacilandotv/?action=view&current=SDMBAds.png).

The most that will show up are 4. It’s usually Netflix or American Express.

I have a Mac running Leopard.

Block Pop-up Windows is selected.

I’m a paying card-carrying member of the board (so there!).

And I can’t figure out why this is happening. This is the only site where I get accompanying pop-ups.

Thanks in advance for any advice and suggestions!

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**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-up-ads/482786/2 "2009-01-24T15:55:33Z")

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Although the board does carry pop-up ads, they should not be that many (according to my experience). If you are getting that many and that’s with a pop-up blocker, you might have some malware (yes, I know you said Mac). More so if you are a paying member, then you should not get any.

I am on Chrome (on Vista) and I do get the little notification I get when a pop up is blocked (no ad blocking software, just the setting in Chrome), but they are few and far between.

I had a thread on this a while ago:

> **[Are we supposed to be getting pop-up ads?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=482975)**
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> My browser keeps telling me of blocked pop-ups here at the sdmb. Is the sdmb using them, is this a problem over there, a problem in my end?

where TubaDiva gives the official answer on this.

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**Author:** ![SharkB8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@SharkB8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SharkB8)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-up-ads/482786/3 "2009-01-24T16:01:54Z")

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Thanks, Sapo!