I go to all the normal sites before I head to bed. Nothing sexy or interesting. All of them sites we can and do post here every day.
I’m mystified where this came from.
It can come in an email or Facebook.
Many of them are designed to look like computer warnings, so it’s also possible that you might have saw something that looked like a Vista warning, or whatever system you are using, and you clicked on it thinking it was Windows.
It could have been the Drudge site then? His site is a favorite target of those who hate “right wingers”.
Probably through JavaScript. I run Firefox with an add-on called “NoScript”. You tell Firefox via settings to turn JS on, and then NS controls which sites gets to run JS on your system. A white list/black list sort of thing. And since a lot of sites host JS from other third parties like google-analytics, you can disallow those but still run the JS needed by the site you’re on.
NoScript is a great add-on for a browser.