Thehugefeed.com Ads and Pop-Ups - How to remove

Thehugefeed.com is an advertising website that uses notifications to deliver pop-up ads to your browser. Even when you’re not on the site, it can still send you notifications. This can be stopped by changing your browser settings.

Thehugefeed.com in short:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
What does Thehugefeed.com do?	It advertises by using notifications, it shows pop-ups in the browser.
How do notification hijackers spread?	They are advertised on video streaming sites.
How to stop ads by Thehugefeed.com	Block unwanted notifications, find and remove malware manually and with antivirus tools (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others).

What is Thehugefeed.com?

Thehugefeed.com is an advertising site. It spreads on video streaming sites and asks people to subscribe to its notifications. It then uses these notifications to deliver advertisements straight to people’s browsers.

There’s nothing else that Thehugefeed.com does, no useful functionality that it delivers. It does have some articles on its main page, but those are all taken from LA Times, so they’re not original.

It appears that Thehugefeed.com’s main and only purpose is to advertise through notifications. It shows a lot of ads by sites like Adskeeper, including clickbait and get-rich-quick schemes. Not all ads on Thehugefeed.com are dangerous, but some are:

• potentially unwanted programs – sometimes, they use fake security warnings to scare you into downloading them,
• options trading scams (like Quantumsystems) that promise to help you become rich if you just invest,
• browser hijackers – extensions that take over the search engine and home page of your browser without providing good features.

It’s good to be careful of Thehugefeed.com’s ads – to avoid clicking on them, to be aware of the possibility of tech support scams, of trading scams, subscription scams, fake giveaways, that sort of thing. Such pages lead to dangerous sites.

Most importantly, never give your payment information to unfamiliar websites.

How do advertising sites spread?

Sites like Thehugefeed.com, Yourviralnewz.com, Mainchargenews.com, and others are advertised online, often on free video streaming sites (pirating sites). You try to watch a movie or a TV show episode, and then this big blank page shows up and tells you to click the Allow button to subscribe to its notifications and continue watching videos. You can ignore this page, but you might not realize that it’s an option. You might allow Thehugefeed.com’s notifications without even thinking about it.

Lots of Mp3 converter sites, torrenting sites, and streaming sites have lots of intrusive pop-up ads and redirects that lead to malicious sites. All these sites are trying to make money by advertising, but they don’t have to be ethical or honest with their ads. So, the ads sometimes lead to potentially deceptive and even harmful pages and they’re impossible to avoid because they pop up as you normally use websites.

How to stop Thehugefeed.com ads

If Thehugefeed.com is showing ads on your screen any time your web browser is open, the problem lies in your notification settings. If you want to stop these ads, open the affected browser and check these settings.

1. Open your browser:
   • Chrome – open Settings, scroll down to Site settings (under Privacy and security), click on Notifications.
   • Edge (Chromium) – open Settings, click Site Permissions, Notifications.
   • Firefox – open Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.
   • Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
2. Find Thehugefeed.com and other sites among those that are allowed to send you notifications.
3. Open the menus next to unwanted addresses and select the option to Block their notifications.

Blocking notifications from Thehugefeed.com and other sites bars them from showing pop-ups on your screen. But it does not block the sites. If you want to do that, then use an anti-malware program that allows you to blacklist your own sites, an ad-blocker, or a site blocker.

Check for malicious programs and potentially unwanted programs that sometimes spread via misleading ads. Look at your most recently installed browser extensions, apps, and programs. Remove those that are suspicious and you didn’t install on purpose, if you find any. It might also be worth it for you to scan your computer with an anti-malware tool (Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, others) to check for potentially unwanted programs.

Finally, review your notification settings and consider hiding notification prompts. Notification spam is a problem and browser developers have come up with ways to help people avoid it by hiding notification prompts.

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