Winyourprize Pop-up Ads - How to remove

Winyourprize ads and redirects may appear in your browser if you accidentally let Winyourprize to send you notifications. These pop-up ads are obnoxious, relentless, and sometimes they even promote dangerous websites. They should be stopped as soon as possible.

Winyourprize pop-ups affect personal computers, phones, tablets, and any other devices that have web browsers. To stop the ads, you need to change certain browser settings – it’s not too hard. And it would be good to keep in mind how exactly Winyourprize tricks people to allow its notifications so that you can recognize its tricks avoid similar ones in the future.

Features of Winyourprize pop-ups:

Classification	Browser hijacker, adware.
Winyourprize behavior	Asks you to allow it to send you notifications under the premise of passing a captcha, sends pop-up ads into your web browser.
How it spreads	Pop-ups on “free” streaming sites, on file download sites, other sites.
How to stop Winyourprize pop-ups	Block unwanted notifications in browser settings, check your computer for malware (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, etc.).

How the pop-up ads start

There are a few Winyourprize sites, including Winyourprize34.com and Winyourprize36.com. And then there are versions like a.Winyourprize34.com, b.Winyourprize.com, etc. They all work the same and this decentralization makes Winyourprize sites harder to be noticed and harder to block.

The only pages that Winyourprize sites have say this:

Click “Allow” to confirm that you are not a robot!

There are real captchas that we sometimes need to solve, like clicking on a checkbox or picking out pictures that display an object. They’re supposed to prove that you’re a human and not a script.

Knowing that captchas are a mundane reality of web browsing, Winyourprize’s makers decided to show a fake captcha that asks you to subscribe to its notifications as a way to pass it. The “Allow” button that Winyourprize pages are asking you to click is the button on the notifications pop-up, and clicking it gives Winyourprize permission to send pop-ups right to your web browser. Not all of us realize how notifications even work, so we may just follow Winyourprize’s instructions without thinking about it.

It’s important to understand that when Winyourprize appears in people’s browsers, it’s nothing more than another advertisement. Winyourprize pages appear as pop-ups on free video streaming sites and similar sites and they work exactly like ads, but because they don’t appear to advertise anything, we may get tricked into thinking that these are real captchas.

Whenever you see a site asking you to click “Allow” for notifications, ignore it. What Winyourprize is actually saying is “Click “Allow” so that I can send you endless spam advertisements and make money off of your clicks”. There are legitimate uses for notifications, but they’re always optional. Only ad-spamming sites tell people that they must do it.

Unwanted, low-quality ads

Winyourprize takes money from advertisers and then shows their ads in pop-up notifications to all the people who were tricked to click that “Allow” button. Unlike with normal sites that depend on advertisements to make money, Winyourprize offers no content, nothing. It only wastes your time.

Worse – the types of advertisers who partner with Winyourprize aren’t always safe. Most websites and ad-networks have guidelines that dictate what kinds of products can be advertised; they have security and ethical standards. Winyourprize is way more relaxed. It can show ads for some potentially dangerous stuff:

• fake warnings about your computer having a virus (these then lead into tech support scams that cost victims hundreds of dollars),
• get-rich-quick ads (which also lead to scams),
• ads for various miracle cures, shady diet pills, food supplements, and infinite energy devices,
• ads for browser extensions that function like adware,
• sites that automatically download malware.

Of course, some ads by Winyourprize are pretty normal and safe. I don’t mean to scare you. Not every pop-up has a risk of infecting your computer. I just listed the worst kinds of ads that are shown by sites like Winyourprize, Winprizes, Go8news.biz, etc.

How to stop Winyourprize pop-ups

Once you know why Winyourprize ads are showing up in your web browser, it’s not difficult to stop them. Open your web browser and find notification settings:

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

There, find all the Winyourprize sites and other sites that you don’t want to see notifications from. Any sites that are in the “Allow” column. You are free to open the little menu next to each of these addresses and choose the option to Disable/Block them. This will only stop notifications from these sites, though. It has the same effect as clicking “Block” instead of “Allow” on the notifications pop-up.

It can actually take a while for Winyourprize’s pop-ups to stop coming. If you accumulated a lot of ads from it that you haven’t closed, they will pop up and it will look like new ads are coming. Don’t be concerned, just dismiss all of them. If more ads are being sent to you, you may not have blocked all the unwanted notifications, so go back to those browser settings. Or check this article – you can just disable notifications completely.

If you want to be extra careful, check your computer with an antivirus program (like Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others). These programs can catch dangerous files and potentially unwanted programs, like adware. Adware apps are sometimes pretty stealthy (to avoid being noticed and removed), but still have an effect by injecting a few ads here and there in your browser. best to remove all malware to avoid bigger problems later.

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