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Whats-up.you-should-watch-this.site

Posted: February 6, 2020

If you encounter the website Whats-up.you-should-watch-this.site, you should know that it masquerades as a page hosting interesting content that can only be accessed by clicking the 'Allow' button on the prompt you see in your Web browser. This is a fraudulent scheme that will not take you to any entertaining content – the only thing you will do by clicking the 'Allow' button is to provide Whats-up.you-should-watch-this.site with permissions to use your Web browser's push notifications. Giving a shady website such permissions will usually result in a large number of notifications appearing in your Web browser – many of them will advertise shady products, services, and websites that you are better off not visiting.

The Whats-up.you-should-watch-this.site makes use of the so-called 'Please press allow to continue' pop-up tactic that has been quite popular among online con artists in the past year. There are countless websites designed to trick users into giving them permissions to your Web browser notifications, therefore enabling them to abuse this feature to spawn numerous advertisements. Random websites that ask you to allow them to display permissions should be avoided if you are not 100% certain in their honesty and reputation, especially.

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