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Nancy W. Ryan
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In the past 2 or three weeks I've been flooded with ads from LIGHTINBOX.com....All of a sudden 4 ads come up in the right lower part of my screen and even if I "dismiss" or Close the ad boxes that space is returned with more ads from the same websight. I've gone to their webside and finally waded through many screens to get to an unsubscribe function but I am STILL getting the same flood of ads. A flurry of 8 or 10 ads in an hour!! How do I fix this? Thank you. Nancy Ryan [edited email]

In the past 2 or three weeks I've been flooded with ads from LIGHTINBOX.com....All of a sudden 4 ads come up in the right lower part of my screen and even if I "dismiss" or Close the ad boxes that space is returned with more ads from the same websight. I've gone to their webside and finally waded through many screens to get to an unsubscribe function but I am STILL getting the same flood of ads. A flurry of 8 or 10 ads in an hour!! How do I fix this? Thank you. Nancy Ryan [edited email]

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James
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/push-notifications-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/push-notifications-firefox#w_how-do-i-revoke-web-push-permissions-for-a-specific-site

The small popups on bottom right sounds like Web Push Notifications from sites you have allowed to send you notifications from. Unfortunately some sites decide to use that function to send fake virus alerts or spam multiple notifications when one or two a day is enough. You can revoke these sites from sending you notifications.


Also you should not post your email in public unless you want to potentially get additional spam from spam bots

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