Hotstories.space Pop-Up Ads - How to remove

Hotstories.space is an advertising spam site. It gets people to allow its notifications by lying and misleading visitors. Then, it uses notifications to show ads in people’s browsers. Hotstories.space shows ads that sometimes lead to dangerous sites, so it’s important to block it as soon as possible.

You can stop Hotstories.space from showing pop-ups when you go into your browser settings and revoke notification permissions from sites that exploit them.

About Hotstories.space:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
How to remove Hotstories.space	Change notification settings in your browser to block Hotstories.space’s pop-ups, find and remove all malware manually or with antivirus tools (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, and others).
How Hotstories.space spreads	Advertised online with redirects and pop-ups, its ads are dishonest and meant to confuse people.
Problems and issues	Its ads are annoying and sometimes even dangerous.

How to stop ads from Hotstories.space

Block notifications from Hotstories.space

Hotstories.space uses notifications to deliver pop-up ads to your browser. To stop these ads, block notifications from Hotstories.space and other suspicious sites.

We have an article on blocking notifications. You can block individual sites’ ads or you can stop all of them from ever asking you to allow their pop-ups.

1. Open notification settings in your browser:
   • Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
   • Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
   • Edge (Chromium) – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
   • Firefox – open Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions and click on Settings next to Notifications.
2. Find Hotstories.space and other websites that are abusing notifications. Also, find sites that are unfamiliar to you and those that you don’t want to see pop-ups from.
3. Next to each address, click the three-dot button and select “Block” in the drop-down. This tells your browser to stop accepting notifications from these sites.

Delete malware

To be extra careful, scan your computer with an antivirus program – Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others. Then, if anything suspicious is found, delete it.

Be careful and check the extensions that are installed on your browser.

 

Problems with Hotstories.space

Tricks people to allow its notifications

Hotstories.space is a website, but it doesn’t really have content. If you try to visit it, you’ll likely get a blank page. Hotstories.space doesn’t want people to be able to go to it.

People end up on Hotstories.space unintentionally, usually when a random pop-up ad on an unrelated website opens it. When Hotstories.space shows up, it has a few different looks:

• A video player with a loading video.
• A reCAPTCHA page asking you to prove that you’re not a robot.
• A  YouTube logo telling you to press “Allow” to watch a video.
• A partially-full loading bar.
• A download button.

In all of these pages, Hotstories.space is asking you to allow its notifications.

The idea is that Hotstories.space shows ads that match the site that it’s advertising on. On free video streaming sites, it shows ads that look like video players. On file hosting sites, it shows download buttons and loading bars. And Hotstories.space appears so unexpectedly that one might not even realize that it’s an ad.

As a result, people may follow Hotstories.space’s instructions because they trust it, thinking that it’s related to the site that they were just on.

This way, Hotstories.space tricks people into allowing it to send notifications to their browsers. This is a problem, browser developers are aware of it, and they try to make it harder to exploit.

Unsafe ads

Hotstories.space is an advertising site, ultimately. It shows pop-ups that look and feel like spam advertisements, like those emails that are sent straight to spam. Like spam email, those ads may be dangerous.

Once I subscribed to Hotstories.space’s notifications, it redirected me to a site to install a cheating tool that Chrome detected as dangerous. So, that’s a bad start.

Other examples of Hotstories.space’s ads include:

• Ads that say that you’ve won something. They tend to lead to phishing scams (sites that try to get you to reveal personal information).
• Similarly, Hotstories.space may show ads for various cheating tools, hacks, and exploits (like the Cash APP scam).
• Pop-ups for browser hijackers and other notification spammers (such as Cda-google.com, Meetclick.biz, and Startimes.club) are likely.
• Ads leading to unreliable articles trying to sell you various products, such as lottery prediction software and options trading software, diet pills and other supplements, various cheap knock-off products, etc.

Some of the ads by Hotstories.space may lead to scams, get-rich-quick schemes, and other potentially dangerous sites. Hotstories.space offers an option for advertisers who’ve been rejected by other companies, which is why it shows so many dangerous advertisements.

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