Advertisements

What is an advertisement?

An advertisement is a form of communication to help sell or distribute a certain product for profit.

Are advertisements bad?

Advertisements have been used with different techniques that can seem potentially unwanted towards Internet users. Some techniques used are:

• Banners
• Promotions
• False advertising
• Drive-by-download
• Propaganda
• Redirections
• Pop-ups
• Nagware
• Adware
• Scareware
• Mail and spam

Some of these strategies can be seen as unwanted or malicious, such as adware or pop-ups.

Some risks can lead to:

• Frauds, scam and phishing
• Installing adware, spyware or other potentially unwanted programs
• Spam
• Hijacked computer or browser
• Slower page loading

How can I block these advertisements?

Enabling your pop-up blocker can block most of these annoying pop-up advertisements, enabling phishing protection can secure yourself from fraud, downloading an ad-blocking program can get rid of these advertisements.