Stay off the Amazon site... There are places on every web site that is dedicated to advertisements based on your viewing habits. You can use an adblocker and minimize the popup ads. Even if you have limited the adchoices by opting out of some advertiser, generic ads will show up. That's how sites like ours remain free.

 

Those are NOT ads. Those are scam popups that have infected your browser. Clear cookies and history in your browser (or in Settings on your smartphone), close the browser, power off, restart. This process clears that sucker out *most* of the time.

 

I read of this complaint a number of times this year on other forum sites I frequent. Some users are unable to use the desired site(s) with browser lock up or having to close and reopen a browser multiple times. Other users like my self are having zero issues.
The usual suggestions are:
Empty cookies
Clear browsing history
Change browser all together.
Get Adblock
Update your anti virus program.....
I can't say for sure as I have yet to experience this. Its obvious, a lot of folks are having a tough time with it and its random as all get out.

 

Download 'AdBlock Plus', it will keep those annoying ads from popping up wherever you browse. You won't have to clear anything out of your browser or cache or history. (Anti Virus does not block ads.)

 

Do you use Chrome? It seems to not suffer from the problems that Internet Explorer does.

 

IMO, NO ONE should be using IE anymore. Chrome, Firefox, Safari all free, all much better browsers.

 

Instead of Adblocker, I've been using Ublock Origin from Google. It's supposed to be better. I've been using it with Firefox for several weeks now, and I'm so far quite satisfied.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ublock-origin/

Since it's provided by google, that could explain why Chrome doesn't have as many problems. It may be built into Chrome.

As far as unwanted popups and so forth, antivirus software might not help as those aren't viruses in the technical sense. Download, install, and run the antimalware program Malwarebytes. It's free, and it's very good at cleaning out things like this. I use it regularly. There is a paid version, but the free version is quite adequate.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/

Internet Explorer is no longer current, and anyone using it should stop. Microsoft replaced it with Edge. I wouldn't use Edge (but my wife uses it all the time at her job with no problems), either, but if you are using it, at least you're using the latest browser from Microsoft.

 

In addition to Malwarebytes, I use CCleaner. Again the free version is very good. If you have not cleaned your pc in a while it will take a while. If your unsure of what your doing, make a list of Passwords you use.
https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/download

 

 

When I'm on my phone I use the full site option.