Totaltopfeed.com Notification Spam - How to remove

Totaltopfeed.com is an advertising site that shows ads on your screen with the help of your web browser. It’s just a website, but having it send you notifications with links to promoted sites can feel overwhelming: as if you have an adware virus on your device.

The good news is that blocking ads from Totaltopfeed.com is pretty simple, you can do it in your browser settings.

Totaltopfeed.com in short:

Threat type	Adware, browser hijacker.
Problems caused by Totaltopfeed.com	Unwanted ads, some of which look like legitimate notifications, ads that lead to potentially unsafe sites.
How notification spam starts	Totaltopfeed.com is advertised online, it misleads visitors to get them to subscribe to its notifications.
How to stop unwanted ads from Totaltopfeed.com	Block notifications from Totaltopfeed.com in your browser settings, disable notification prompts from all sites, avoid malware and malicious sites with security apps (Malwarebytes, others) and ad blockers.

How Totaltopfeed.com works

Totaltopfeed.com is an advertising site

Did you start seeing pop-ups on your screen that are labeled with “Totaltopfeed.com”?

Totaltopfeed.com is a notification spammer, a website that sends messages with advertisements to web browsers. While Totaltopfeed.com offers nothing valuable to those whose browsers it infects, it makes money to the people who operate it.

Totaltopfeed.com advertises online marketplaces, various apps, online games, fake giveaways, adult websites, etc. It shows similar ads to what you might see on illegal/free movie streaming sites and file download websites.

Sometimes, Totaltopfeed.com’s notifications don’t even look like ads; instead, they look like notifications from other apps:

• virus warnings,
• new messages on Instagram, Facebook, other social media sites,
• important software update alerts.

If an ad is designed to impersonate a trusted app, that’s a sure sign that the ad is malicious. The problem is that it’s pretty easy for unethical advertisers to design ads that look just like trusted notifications.

All that Totaltopfeed.com does is spam your browser with unwanted ads. That’s not so dangerous.

However, because the ads may lead to dangerous websites, such as phishing sites and tech support scam sites, Totaltopfeed.com can cause real problems. That’s why it’s very important to avoid such notification hijackers or to stop them as quickly as possible.

It hijacks notification settings

Totaltopfeed.com delivers its ads via notifications.

Notifications – messages from websites to browsers – can be useful. For example, some websites can send you timely updates, such as messages about new items in your inbox. Marketers see notifications as a powerful advertising tool. Unfortunately, online fraudsters also see the benefits of browser notifications.

But for a browser to receive notifications from a site, its user has to subscribe.

Totaltopfeed.com is advertised on pirating sites, file download sites, and other controversial websites. It appears in a new browser tab, where it shows an animation of a loading bar.

Totaltopfeed.com asks the user to “Click the Allow button to subscribe to the push notifications and continue watching”. It implies that the user must allow its notifications if they want to continue watching videos. But this isn’t true – you’re free to ignore Totaltopfeed.com and close the tab.

When a site tells you that you must allow notifications in order to access content, it is almost certainly lying. (There are some exceptions, like Adf.ly.)

How to stop Totaltopfeed.com ad spam

In your browser settings, you can find Totaltopfeed.com and other sites listed among those that are allowed to send notifications to you. There, you can stop each of these sites by changing their permission from “Allowed” to “Blocked”.

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

Totaltopfeed.com shows instructions for blocking notifications, too! This is uncommon for notification hijackers.

There’s also a setting to stop all notification prompts. That way, sites won’t be able to show the “Totaltopfeed.com wants to… Show notifications” box. This will cripple all notification hijackers.

Of course, notifications can be useful. If you block notification prompts, you’ll still be able to add sites to your “Allowed” list manually. This isn’t very convenient, but it stops all the adware sites like Totaltopfeed.com from working, so it may be worth it.

You can also protect your device with an anti-malware tool, like Malwarebytes, which can work together with antivirus programs and block potentially unwanted apps and even suspicious websites. Ad blockers can also help avoid sites like Totaltopfeed.com.

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