You’ve been infected with some kind of malware. You need to do a search and remove it, ASAP, because the longer it stays, the more it’s likely to spread.
It isn’t Free Republic. You’re infected............
FR as no pop-ups.
If you are getting pop-ups, it is because some other website or software is intiating them.
You probably need to do some computer maintenance: cleaning your registry, running virus scan, running spyware scan, etc.
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What are the contents in the pop-ups? That could help in isolating how and where they are originating.
You have adware/malware ... even if you have a mac, which for a long time were immune, not so any more. They are not coming from here.
Probably someone here can point you to the best free anti-adware software. If you search the internet yourself, you will actually only wind up downloading more bad stuff from people claiming to be offering free anit-adware/virus/malware software.
Malwarebytes antimalware It’s free and it worked for me several years ago.
There are no ads on FR.
You have some virus or something.
You need to go to your extensions in settings and turn them all off and then delete them, it is very easy.
I don’t get any pop up ads. That is because my whozits is not connected to my whatzits. If you disconnect the ads will surely go away. But maybe not.
They may have just ended a quarterly fund-raiser but a new one is about to begin. Let's everybody give some money ahead of time to keep the pop-up ads away. Or at bay.
Those ads are not coming from FR. You may have a browser hijacker.
That brings up an interesting observation:
There were practically no ads during the dial-up days. As soon as companies realized that many people had, at least, DSL and cable then the ads have been everywhere!
I, too, have found it impossible to navigate some links so that I simply “X” them off.....never to visit that page again and whisper dirty words to the person who designed the page. ;-)
You have a virus. Or worse, a rootkit.
Did you contribute to the freepathon...?
No pop up ads here.................
You have either visited a website that has adware of you downloaded something that contained adware.
The normal antivirus programs normally cannot remove it. You may have to load a copy of the original image of your computer to get rid of it.
I know, after one of my computers crashed I was not paying attention and loaded Google Chrome from what I thought was a Google website but it was close to Google but not Google. I ended up having to completely strip and reload new programs back into my computer.
To give you a little insight to adware...the ads pop up and the more you close them the more pop up. I bet that is what is happening to you.
All this talk about virus and hijacking? I thought that little stripper girl walking across the bottom of my screen was part of the Freepathon.
It gets rid of 99+% of the ad crap on web pages.
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(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
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Have any Indian (red dot, not woo woo) women coughed on your computer? It may have TB.