Dave, how do I get rid of all these stupid America Online pop-ups that plague me when I use my AOL account? I checked my AOL preferences and don’t see anything that lets me turn them off!
In the old days, when AOL seemed to have a competitive business model, they made a remarkable amount of revenue from their pop-up sales offers, and I know more than one person who ended up with stuff from AOL that they apparently ordered by clicking the wrong button to get rid of the pesky window. Nowadays, I think that there’s been so much pushback from customers like yourself that they’ve eased back a bit. Or perhaps it’s just that i don’t use AOL much any more!
Anyway, it’s not easy to find where to disable pop-ups from AOL but here’s the trick: Go to keyword Settings (On the Mac that’s found at Go –> Keyword, which brings you to this screen:
Here you want to click on Marketing (it’s a slightly different color in the screen shot), though it’s well worth spending 10-15 minutes one time going through all of the many AOL preferences. There’s quite a bit you can fine-tune about your online experience!
Anyway, click on Marketing and you’ll now see:
On the lower right is an entry “POP-UP”: click on that and you’ll be exactly where you want to be:
You can see that I’ve already set my preferences to not receiving pop-ups from AOL about stuff to buy (I already buy too much darn stuff without their help!). Make sure your setting matches, then click OK to set it.
While we’re here, also click on “E-Mail” on the Marketing Preferences window so you can ensure that you’re not getting spam (well, technically it’s not spam if you’ve given the permissoin to send it) from AOL about stuff to buy or services to purchase. The E-Mail preference window looks familiar:
Make sure you have the latter of the two options set and click OK.
Done! That should make using AOL considerably more enjoyable.
i only use firefox and chrome, and i have norton, which i run every day- the pop-up videos are on my aol home page. its so annoying. i don’t know what “website” means on this application.
looking at the comments people are say. I get the same thing. Why does AOL want me to see my
credit score. I don’t want it and when I try to get to look at my mail, it comes back on and won’t go away.
If I want to know my credit score I will let them know. I don’t care what it is, it is my business and no one
else. How do you get them to stop. And also when I write, they make the screen go up and down to
disrupt me. that should stop also. I am keeping tract of all things like this so I can either send a list to the BBB and to congress to see what we can do about it.
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I keep getting a window popping up all the time: postback_ifr(1×1) how doI stop it
I want to get rid of all popups on AOL
Have you tried installing pop-up blockers? majority of online protection software such as antivirus have this feature.
I’d suspect some malware, John. Run some anti-virus applications and see what’s snuck onto your system, and also disable EVERY toolbar in your Web browser (oh, and use Firefox or Chrome, not IE)
Im trying to figure out how to stop all the ads that are taking over the right 1/3 of my screen. It got real bad this week as they now play at the same time as articles and classes that I need to watch are playing. It is just plain rude or maybe Im too darn old. Can you help an old geezer that remembers before TV, setting around the radio listening to the Shadow, for it seems today “THAT ONLY THE SHADOW KNOWS” how to fix these things.
God Bless,
John Pavelka
I’m not a fan of AOL. And now that interest is
revived that network, I see on this graph in
front of me that spam has increased 40,000 per
cent in countries with high divorce rates.
Even Hotmail is better than AOL Mail or Yahoo
Mail. I get as much spam as anyone, but it’s a simple matter of breaking my fingers to push the right buttons again and again while on CL, and
give Windows Live time, they will put the spam
in a box for me.
Do I go on AOL Mail and sign in to pull up settings? I did that and the page that comes up is nothing like what you show. That Preferences page does not appear. Thank You for any help you can offer.
After years on AOL, I have just started receiving a maddening new box on sign-off from AOL, which says “Are you sure you want to sign off?”. How do I get rid of it?
I am running windows 7 with windows internet explorer as my browser and norton safe search as my default search, however I am getting lots of cookies and other files (over 500), from AOL as shown by my Paretologic Privacy Programme. A O L as far as I know is not on my computer, it is certainly not in my programmes list.
How can I get rid of this annoying hidden browser.
i blocked a ad on aol. now i can’t read any of my e-mails. when i punch in any e-mail the screen goes blank. how do i unblock my aol mail.
an altruistic website.may the gods cover your back.
I have completed all the steps you have recommended on stopping the Facebook popups on AOL. I am still getting facebook popups even tho the changes on aol have been made. I am sure this has something to do with marketing between the two companies…but I still want the popups gone. My last resort will be to do away with facebook and aol completely. I have no use for their advertising. I can the news and CNBC. lol
DO NOT LIKEAOL WANT TO GET RID OF IT
Well I thought this info was great, and perhaps it was months ago, but AOL no longer has those settings you mentioned. There is no ‘marketing’ and no option to prevent that annoying pop up at the bottom of my screen, that prevents me from clicking anything that it is blocking like web browsers.
It is highly annoying, and I have made a point NOT to look at it while I silently wait for it to go.
If this nonsense does not stop I will have to stop using aol. I do not want anyone deciding what I should or should not see.
It wouldn’t even bother me so much if it were somewhere where I could continue working, but to have it right there preventing me from working, is beyond annoying. I will have to use yahoo to do my work from now on.
AOL, find some other way to advertise and stop annoying people. Pay us to allow these darned things to come up on the screen or you will surely lose us. We are not getting paid and we don’t care to help anyone advertise, and I certainly will not be buying anything from your so-called sponsors.
So far I have not looked at them, but perhaps I will make a note NOT to use those companies.
Ok, here we go. Dickies, I will not buy from them; and to think I have bought uniforms from them and so does my family? Thanks to you, they will no longer get my business.
No one wants to hear about my company, so I don’t want to hear about yours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lee, that’s called a “joe job” and, unfortunately, there’s not much you can do about it. They most likely haven’t broken into your account, they’re just spoofing your email addr on their spam. Sucks, I see it every single day…
Someone, somehow, has my list of addresses and is sending out ads for Via-gra, etc. to everyone on my list and it shows that the emails are coming from me. I have installed virus/spyware but it happened again yesterday. What can I do? I have deleted all names/addresses from my address book, I immediately delete all incoming/outgoing emails and still can’t stop it.
I HAVE A PROBLEM GETTING INTO SOME WEBSITES GET A MESSAGE THIS SITE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED CALLED ONE WEBSITE AND THEY SAID IT HAD TO DO WITH SECURITY MY FRIEND GETS INTO THESE SITES BUT NOT ME CHANGED TO SSL2 NO HELP
When trying to use internet explorer my AOL software keeps starting up. No sooner do I shut it down and it reappears. How do I stop this
I wanted to get rid of the AOL popups too and I did all you said and they are still there!!!
I am an AOL customer (have been for years)and use AOL as my home page while at work. Recently an ad popped up blocking access to the paging button on thier site making it impossible to go to the next news item.
Searching around, I found a setting in my browser (Internet Explorer 8) that allowed me to switch off the pop-ups.
In the browser tool bar click on “Tools” and select “Manage Add-Ons”. Click on “Tool Bars and Extensions” on the left side, and click “Shockwave Flash Object” on the right. Then click “Disable” at the bottom. The pop-ups will go away, but you will get a ballon occasionally informing you this has been disabled.
Everytime I come on line I get an annoying pop-up from aol asking me if I want to stay online..even though I’m in the middle of a game or doing some type of work…then it starts popping up after that every 5 minutes..its driving me crazy! Is anyone else getting this, and how do I stop them?
Please help!
Suiteypie
How the hell do you OPT out of these ANNOYING PopUp ads on AOL?????? I am ready to SCREAMMMM!!!
The onlt option I get is *OPT IN*….never get an OPT OUT, so what’s up with that? Is it because I get AOL free, so I have NO choices to opt out??? Someone PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!
L.P.
Hate the “AOL Goggle Search Window”? Just go to keyword: Search Window” and click the “Opt Out” button. Thank goodness enough of us conplained so that we could finally choose after 12 months of frustrations.