pop ups on Chrome / Android

thrifty_pete

I keep getting these popups, I don't think they are related to the web site I am browsing at the time. They say I have won £500 or an iphone 7 or a Galaxy S7.
The web address is something like https://www.google.co.uk-win-an-iphone-7-samsung-s7.dxquit.com
I have tried clearing the cache - surely Android can't get malware like Windows XP!
Anything else I could try?

ballyblack

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app .
To the right of the address bar,
Scroll down to Site settings.
Touch Pop-Ups to get to the slider that turns off pop-ups.
Touch the slider button again to disable the feature.

thrifty_pete

ballyblack wrote: »

Touch Pop-Ups to get to the slider that turns off pop-ups.

Yes that was already set, I think it is the default. It is strange how persistent this is. I think the pup up is a dialog box, which the popup blocker doesn't block. Just amazing how this comes up when I'm looking at a "clean" website like the BBC which doesn't carry adverts at all, let alone dodgy ones.

esuhl

If your phone is rooted, have a look at the AdAway ad-blocker:


https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.adaway/
https://adaway.org/