Thehypenewz.com Ad Spam - How to remove

Thehypenewz.com is a website that shows unwanted ads on your screen. It affects personal computers and mobile devices. It displays advertisements labeled with the address “Thehypenewz.com”. Some of the advertisements that it shows are safe, while some lead to harmful content.

You can stop Thehypenewz.com from showing you unwanted ads by changing a few settings in your browser.

In short about Thehypenewz.com:

Threat type	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Thehypenewz.com works	It tricks people to sign up for its notifications, it shows ads on people’s screens even when Thehypenewz.com is not open.
Problems and dangers	Some of the ads are made to look like notifications from trusted apps, some of the ads lead to dangerous or controversial sites.
How to stop ads from Thehypenewz.com	Block notifications from sites that are abusing them, protect your computer from threats with anti-malware programs (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others).

What is Thehypenewz.com?

Thehypenewz.com is an advertising website that uses notifications to deliver its ads.

Basically, Thehypenewz.com makes money by letting various products and companies advertise in its notifications. It wants to show notifications to as many people as possible.

So, Thehypenewz.com tricks people to get them to subscribe to its ads with the help of the “Allow to continue” scam. It uses notifications, which you must explicitly allow by clicking the “Allow” button on the prompt that the site shows. Unless you’ve blocked these prompts in your browser settings, in which case, Thehypenewz.com just opens a promoted website.

But first, Thehypenewz.com needs to be advertised to reach any users at all. It’s promoted on video streaming sites, torrenting sites, and file download sites. If you pirate your movies and other content, then you might encounter sites like Thehypenewz.com, Loglaupt.com, Allhugefeed.com, and others, pretty regularly.

The malicious ads that infect many pirating websites make them very unsafe. This is why it’s advised to protect your device with ad blockers and good anti-malware programs before visiting pirating sites.

Problems and dangers

Unwanted ads are distracting. It’s hard enough to ignore malicious ads, but Thehypenewz.com might also show pop-ups that don’t look like ads at all. Some malicious ads are designed to look like genuine notifications: missed calls, personal messages, social media alerts. This makes them even more frustrating and dangerous than the usual obnoxious ads.

As for the content that Thehypenewz.com promotes, there are some potentially dangerous there:

• Potentially unwanted apps, like MacKeeper.
• Fake virus alerts.
• Crypto investment scams and other get-rich-quick scams.
• Subscription scams and deceptive ads for reward sites.
• Fake giveaways of cash, phones, and other valuables.

Not all the ads that Thehypenewz.com shows are so harmful. Some of the ads are just slightly controversial, such as gambling and betting sites or adult video sites. And others are completely safe. Still, Thehypenewz.com shows too many unsafe ads and this is a problem. Especially when some of the pop-ups mislead users about their destination.

How to stop Thehypenewz.com ads

Browser developers are aware of the problem of malicious notifications (Reducing abusive notification content) and they’ve made it easier than even to block unwanted notifications.

To stop Thehypenewz.com’s ad spam, check the settings of your browser. See which sites can send you notifications:

• Chrome – open Settings, scroll down to Site settings (under Privacy and security), click on Notifications.
• Edge (Chromium) – open Settings, click Site Permissions, Notifications.
• 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.

If Thehypenewz.com is among the sites that are “Allowed” to send you ads, then click the little button to the right of the address and choose the “Blocked” option (“Deny” on Safari).

You can also block unwanted notifications from the opp-ups themselves. Click on the Site settings button or the gear icon to get the option to block notifications from Thehypenewz.com.

Also, scan your computer with anti-malware programs (Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, others) and remove programs and apps that are flagged as being dangerous. If you downloaded shady apps from any of the ads that Thehypenewz.com displayed, an anti-malware app will warn you.

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