I am using Chrome on a windows PC and have never seen it.

Also I use adblocker and ghostery which does help in blocking ads. There is a lot of ads on HJ pages.

Edited by sandy56 on 27/01/2018 at 10:13

You will need to use an adblocking browser such as duckduckgo or adblockplus browser.

I have given up trying to read things on my phone and tablet as too many pop ups are occurring.

go to your settings too, block everything, pop ups, auto video play, tick/untick the privacy settings as you want them, stop scripts running etc etc. and frequently delete your browsing history

It could be your tablet's been hacked or at least been infected with a virus or most likely malware/adware from visiting another website. Try the pop-up blocker ad-ons available on Chrome, and, if you have an internet security suite on your main computer, it may be one that has more than one licence, so you can install the (admitedly cut down version) on your Android tablet (I do that with Bitdefender and previously with Kaspersky).

You may want to consider using Firefox for Android, at least for websites affected, as it definitely does come with a lot of good quality ad and popup blockers (I use uBlock Origin & AdGuard AdBlocker, plus Ghostery).

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