# What's this new popup? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 5, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-new-popup/711912 "2015-02-05T18:50:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-new-popup/711912/1 "2015-02-05T18:50:04Z")
Every time I post it opens a blank page, url [http://trc.taboola.com/chicagosuntimes-straightdope/log/3/visible](http://trc.taboola.com/chicagosuntimes-straightdope/log/3/visible). ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-new-popup/711912/2 "2015-02-05T18:52:53Z")
I started getting the same thing this morning. ---
**Author:** ![tonyfop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85f322/32.png) [@tonyfop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonyfop)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-new-popup/711912/3 "2015-02-05T19:06:45Z")
I get it on my work computer, but it doesn’t open. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-new-popup/711912/4 "2015-02-05T20:13:05Z")
What broswers? Here, Firefox with AdBlock, no popups. I’d be shocked if it did happen, given my setup. A quick google shows that there appears (at a glance) to be an uptick in that URL popup windows in many fora, not just SDMB. I’m guessing, non-authoratatively, something coming in with one of the advertisers. (I’m not quoting that URL because of the stupid automatic linkification, presumably by our other advertising buddies Viglink.) ---
**Author:** ![sich\_hinaufwinden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@sich\_hinaufwinden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sich_hinaufwinden)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-new-popup/711912/5 "2015-02-05T20:24:43Z")
I’ve been getting it at home and at work. Both computers Win 7 with IE. Actually what I’ve been getting is a notification of a blocked pop-up, but it is still annoying. For me it would happen pretty reliably when I had scrolled down near to the bottom of a page. It is not doing it to me at the moment though. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-new-popup/711912/6 "2015-02-05T20:28:19Z")
From the wiki: > [@wiki](#): > > Taboola is a content marketing platform that provides a web widget to content creators on their website to show “Content You May Like” that includes links to related articles, videos, and slideshows, both from within the site and from other publishers.[1] Its closest competitor, that has a somewhat similar business model, is Outbrain.[2] Its clients include BBC, USA Today, Huffington Post, and the Boston Globe.[2] And, apparently, the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-new-popup/711912/7 "2015-02-05T20:36:57Z")
> [@sich\_hinaufwinden](#): > > Both computers Win 7 with IE. > > For me it would happen pretty reliably when I had scrolled down near to the bottom of a page. Same for me. Win 7 and IE 10. When I scroll down to the bottom of the page as soon as the Taboola ads appear I get the pop-up. It doesn’t happen every time though. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-new-popup/711912/8 "2015-02-05T23:30:06Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > From the wiki: So they are some of the same morons who think I’m interested in the latest diet fads, celebrity gossip, and the same online merchants I go to anyway–or visited once without buying anything? That’s a useful business plan they have there. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-new-popup/711912/9 "2015-02-06T00:12:40Z")
Lather. Rinse. Repeat. - Use a decent web browser with AdBlocker add-in and you will not need to worry about it, nor any other ad that might contain malware. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-new-popup/711912/10 "2015-02-06T18:53:33Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > So they are some of the same morons who think I’m interested in the latest diet fads, celebrity gossip, and the same online merchants I go to anyway–or visited once without buying anything? That’s a useful business plan they have there. :rolleyes: It doesn’t have to work on you. It only has to work on a vanishingly small percentage of the Unwashed Millions, the same Unwashed Millions this very website attempts to bring out of Ignorance. Which is why putting this kind of crud on this website is an unfortunately effective match. Recurring complaints about advertising ignorance on a website dedicated to fighting ignorance notwithstanding. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-new-popup/711912/11 "2015-02-06T20:00:49Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Lather. Rinse. Repeat. - Use a decent web browser with AdBlocker add-in and you will not need to worry about it, nor any other ad that might contain malware. You make good arguments. Would you mind trying to convince my employer? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-new-popup/711912/12 "2015-02-06T20:13:10Z")
Also I want to note that it hasn’t happened at all today. I just went and hit five threads I have not looked at yet and scrolled to the bottom and no pop-ups. So maybe it broke and fixed itself. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-new-popup/711912/13 "2015-02-06T20:24:55Z")
Mmmmmm, taboola.