How to Stop Pop Up Ads

One of the major sources of revenue on the internet is advertisement. There are many ways in which ads are displayed by websites and one of the most aggressive and irritating approaches of web advertisers is a 'Pop Up Ad'. The aim of this article is to explain how to stop pop up ads, from ruining your web experience.

About Pop Up Ads
When you visit some web sites, you will notice that the moment your web browser loads the page, additional windows pop up, with banner advertisements about products and offers. These are pop up ads and they are desperate attempts of web sites to gain advertising generated revenue.

However, for a user who has an Internet connection with low bandwidth, these pop ups serve to slow down the loading of web pages. Some of these pop up ads can embed malicious codes on your computer, compromising its security. The time wasted in closing these pop up ads is another reason for you to block them.

Stopping Pop Up Ads on Google Chrome
The web browser launched by Google, which has rapidly gained popularity as one of the fastest browsers in the world, is Chrome. It comes with a number of inbuilt security features which includes a facility to block pop up ads from appearing.

To stop pop up ads from appearing on Google Chrome, click on the 'spanner' symbol on the right hand side of the browser and select the 'Options' feature from the drop down list which appears. Further, click on the 'Under the Bonnet' tab. Then click on the 'Content Settings' button, which will open up a window. Click on 'Pop Up Ads' and select the check box, which says 'Do not allow any site to show pop ups'.

Stopping Pop Up Ads on Firefox
Let us now see the procedure for blocking pop up ads on Mozilla Firefox. Go to 'Tools → Options → Content Tab' and select the check box, which says - 'Block Pop Up Windows' and your job is done.

Banning Pop Up Ads in Internet Explorer
Here is the procedure for blocking pop up ads on Internet Explorer. To do that go to 'Tools → Pop Up Blocker' and select 'Turn On Pop Up Blocker'. You can open the pop up blocker settings and set the level of blocking to 'High'.

Stop Pop Up Ads on Safari
Mac OS X uses the Safari web browser and here is the procedure for blocking pop up ads. To do that, simply click on the 'Safari' tab at the top of the browser and select the 'Block Pop Up Windows' option. You can directly activate this feature using the 'Command + K' keyboard shortcut on your Mac.

Other Ways of Blocking Pop Up Ads
There are many software programs available as free downloads on the Internet, which work with your browser to block pop ups. Some of these, which you could use are 'Pop-Up Stopper Free Edition', launched by Panicware, Internet Security 2006, launched by Trend Micro PC-Cillin or the Google toolbar, which comes with a pop-up window block feature.

The easiest way is to use the pop up blocker feature, which is an inbuilt feature in most web browsers. As suggested above, you could take the alternative route of installing special software programs that can block these ads effectively. Implement any one of the pop up blocking methods and get rid of them forever!