

See the Apple Support article About pop-up ads and windows in Safari. If you block pop-ups on a website, but you continue to see pop-ups on the website, you might have unwanted software on your Mac. If you don’t see Configured Websites, either you haven’t set pop-up blocking for any sites yet, or you’ve cleared the list.Ĭlick the “When visiting other websites” pop-up menu, then choose one of the following:īlock and Notify: Pop-ups for the website don’t appear, but when you visit a website with blocked pop-ups, you can choose to show them by clicking the Show button in the Smart Search field.īlock: Pop-ups for the websites don’t appear. If there are websites listed below Configured Websites, and you want to change the settings for these sites (for example, they’re set to Allow, but you want to change them to Block), select each website, then click Remove. If this box is clicked and you are still seeing pop ups, hit Settings, and in the Pop-up Blocker Settings window that appears go to the bottom and find ‘Blocking level’. If you don’t see Pop-up Windows, be sure to scroll to the bottom of the list. In Windows 8 just open up the Search charm and type in Programs and Features.In the Safari app on your Mac, choose, then click Websites. In Windows 7 click the Start button, Control Panel, clicking Programs, and then choose Programs and Features. In both Windows 7 and Windows 8 you can uninstall a program by opening Programs and Features.

Set the service you wish to disable to Off. Any content blocking services currently active will be listed here. Click Preferences > Websites > Content blockers. Open the Safari menu in the top left corner of the screen. If you don’t know it’s name, open up the task manager when it is doing its annoying trick and you’ll find it listed there. Disable ad blocker on Safari (MacBook) Open up the Safari browser on MacBook. So, if you keep seeing an annoying nagging window asking you to update or pay for software you no longer use, you should uninstall that program. You could delete the program as outlined below, and then But that doesn’t mean you have to pay to renew. But first a word of caution: if your security software, your antivirus, is asking you to update, you may have out of date protection and you need to do something about it. Scroll to the Pop-ups section, and then ensure the Do not allow any site to show pop-ups radio button is selected. Below we’ll show you how to install a program that is nagging you.

However, some programs you have installed intentionally or unwittingly will continue to nag you long after you have had a use for them. These have been reduced in Windows 7 and Windows 8, but they will never go away entirely. How to get rid of annoying pop ups on the DesktopĪs we mentioned above there are some pop ups that Windows itself sends your way.
