You-should-watch-this.site Pop-ups - How to remove

You-should-watch-this.site is a malicious site that uses browser notifications to spam users with advertisements. Many of the ads that You-should-watch-this.site shows are harmful and dangerous. They start when the user allows notifications from You-should-watch-this.site. Block notifications in browser settings and You-should-watch-this.site will go quiet.

Details on You-should-watch-this.site:

Classification	Adware.
How the pop-ups start	You-should-watch-this.site is advertised and promoted online, it tricks visitors to subscribe to its notifications.
Dangers of ads by You-should-watch-this.site	Scams, dishonest and pushy ads, promotions for junkware, browser hijackers, and other adware.
Stopping ads by You-should-watch-this.site	Block unwanted notifications, find and delete malware with Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others.

How You-should-watch-this.site hijacks browsers

Whats-up.you-should-watch-this.site, or You-should-watch-this.site, is a site that appears when another malicious website or an adware infection opens it.

When it’s open, You-should-watch-this.site shows a message that tries to get visitors to click the “Allow” button. In my case, You-should-watch-this.site claimed that I need to click “Allow” to confirm that I’m not a robot. It may expand to full-screen and make it look like there’s no way to close it.

Of course, You-should-watch-this.site is not really a site checking for bots. It’s actually a notification spammer. It wants to show notifications and clicking “Allow” on the pop-up means that You-should-watch-this.site is now able to show notifications in this browser. Just visiting You-should-watch-this.site is not dangerous; clicking the “Allow” button is what causes problems.

Even though You-should-watch-this.site is a website, it has almost no content, other than pages telling people to click that “Allow” button. But it works! You-should-watch-this.site receives hundreds of thousands of visits monthly. Here’s how:

• Redirects from file download sites, such as Scribddownloader.org.
• Ads on faucet sites.
• Ads on video streaming sites, including pirated movie and TV show sites as well as adult video sites.
• Torrent sites.
• Redirects from various infected websites, usually old and small sites.

You-should-watch-this.site appears like a serious, confident warning about you needing to prove that you’re not a robot. Such warnings are not uncommon and usually ask for things like ticking a box, categorizing images, and typing in distorted letters. You-should-watch-this.site attempts to copy those CAPTCHAs and make it look like you need to pass it to continue browsing.

This is manipulative and deceptive and is a form of social engineering. It means that You-should-watch-this.site tricks people to infect their own computers. It’s so simple and unsophisticated, yet so effective.

Dangers of notification spam

You-should-watch-this.site promotes sites that normal advertising networks stay away from:

• Fake giveaways like “Lucky Draw Contest” that promise a free prize only to sign you up for an unwanted monthly subscription.
• Crypto investment scams.
• Other get-rich-quick schemes.
• Gaming and gambling sites that rely on constant payments.
• Ads for browser hijackers and fake software.

Sites like You-should-watch-this.site are the refuge of advertisers who have been blocked for being too risky by mainstream advertising networks and publishers. Besides, scammers think that if a person fell for one scam (You-should-watch-this.site), they’ll likely fall for others. So, even though You-should-watch-this.site itself is not all that dangerous, the ads that it shows end up being very harmful.

How to stop You-should-watch-this.site pop-ups

You-should-watch-this.site uses notifications to deliver its pop-up ads. But it needs the browser’s explicit permission to do this. You can revoke this permission anytime.

• Go to your notification settings:
  • Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
  • Edge (Chromium) – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
  • Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
  • Firefox – open Settings, Preferences, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.
• Find the sites that are sending unwanted notifications – You-should-watch-this.site and others – and press the button next to each of them and then click “Block”.

Provided that there’s no malware messing with your browser settings and that you blocked notifications from all the malicious sites (examples of such sites – Topflownews.com, Reclick.club, Install.notify-service.com), You-should-watch-this.site should stop any and all pop-ups.

You should probably still review your computer for adware. Use an anti-malware app like Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, or others to scan your device. There are some browser extensions that inject ads into the browser and lead to sites like You-should-watch-this.site. However, it is also likely that you just stumbled on You-should-watch-this.site while on some infected sites and your computer is clean. Still, it’s good to make sure.

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