Click-to-read.online Ad Spam - How to remove

Click-to-read.online is an advertising site that uses notifications to spam users with unwanted ads. Though Click-to-read.online is not inherently dangerous, some of the ads it shows are risky. Not to mention – unwanted. Click-to-read.online is not helpful or useful, it’s just an ad spammer.

If your browser is showing ads from Click-to-read.online, all you need to do to stop them is to change the notification settings in your web browser.

About Click-to-read.online:

Threat type	Adware, browser hijacker.
How to stop Click-to-read.online ads	Block notifications from unwanted sites, remove malware from the computer (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others).
How Click-to-read.online works	Advertises in browser notifications, shows ads even when the site is not open in the browser.
How notification spammers spread	Advertised online, they tend to lie in order to trick the visitor to accept notifications.

How to stop Click-to-read.online’s ads

Block notifications

Click-to-read.online is an advertising website. Unlike most sites that publish ads on their webpages, Click-to-read.online uses notifications to send ads straight to people’s browsers. This can be very annoying.

If you are seeing pop-up ads from Click-to-read.online, you can block them in your browser settings. Your browser has two lists of websites in regard to notifications: sites that are allowed and sites that are blocked. The goal is to move Click-to-read.online from the Allowed list to the Blocked list.

Open the settings:

• Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Edge (Chromium) – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• Firefox – open Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.

Find Click-to-read.online. There might be a few different versions of it, so find all of them. Then, just click the button to the right of each Click-to-read.online entry and select Block.

Remove malware

Check your browser for malicious extensions. Scan your computer for malware with an antivirus program – Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others. Remove malicious extensions, programs, apps, etc.

In addition, you can use anti-malware programs to block malicious websites like Click-to-read.online and many others. These sites are unhelpful, malicious, potentially even dangerous. They spread on malicious sites and they promote malicious sites which can result in you being exposed to malware infections and scams.

How Click-to-read.online works

Spam advertising

Click-to-read.online is an advertising website that has almost no content. All it does is show ads.

The way that Click-to-read.online displays ads is via browser notifications – little messages from websites to browsers. These messages can be used to show relevant updates from sites that you don’t currently have open (discount on an item on your wishlist, abandoned cart about to expire, new friend request, etc.), but they’re often abused to display ads.

Click-to-read.online sends ads that appear as little boxes in the corner of your screen (on desktop) or at the top (on mobile). They appear no matter what sites you have open in your browser.

Potentially dangerous ads

The ads shown by Click-to-read.online include some risky categories, like health supplements and gaming/gambling sites. Such ads may be unsuitable for children. Other ads lead to clickbait sites, browser hijackers, and other advertising-focused webpages. Some may even lead to malware and scams.

Not all ads that Click-to-read.online shows are malicious, but the real problem is that Click-to-read.online tricks people into allowing the ads in the first place.

Notification hijacking

When you visit Click-to-read.online, it’s just a blank page. But if an advertisement carries you to the Click-to-read.online site, you see something else: a page asking you to “Click Allow”. It might look like a video player about to show a movie, a robot check, a loading bar, an age check, etc.

“Allow” refers to the notification prompt which is shown when a website asks your browser to show it. Click “Allow” to let the website send notifications to your browser.

Click-to-read.online lies about what clicking the Allow button does. This way, it unfairly tricks some people into adding it to their list of sites allowed to send notifications.

There are lots of sites that do this: Mybestnewz.com, Click-now-extra-special.online, and many others. These sites, once they trick enough people into subscribing to their notifications, make money from advertising.

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