Coldmedia.biz Pop-Ups - How to remove

Have you been seeing pop-ups labeled with “Coldmedia.biz” in the corner of your screen? Coldmedia.biz is an advertising site that uses notifications to deliver ads. Or rather, it abuses notifications to force ads on people who did not sign up for this. With the help of some misleading webpages, Coldmedia.biz tricks people into subscribing to its advertisements. All you need to do to stop its pop-ups is to change your notification settings.

About Coldmedia.biz:

Type of threat	Notification spammer, adware.
How to block Coldmedia.biz’s ads	Change your notification permissions, check your device for malware (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others).
How Coldmedia.biz takes over notifications	It’s advertised in a way that misleads and confuses people, it lies to get people to subscribe to its notifications.
Problems and issues	Unwanted, aggressive ads that require interaction to close them, malicious and potentially dangerous content delivered by the pop-ups.

How to block ads from Coldmedia.biz

The Coldmedia.biz website serves as a platform for advertisers to deliver ads to the screens of, usually, unwilling recipients. The reason that the pop-ups are showing is that your browser has been configured to accept notifications from Coldmedia.biz.

To stop this, you need to go into the settings of your browser, find where this setting is, and change it, blocking all notifications from Coldmedia.biz.

How to bock notifications

You can wait for a Coldmedia.biz pop-up to come, then click the gear icon and block the notifications from there. But as there may be multiple versions of Coldmedia.biz (0.Coldmedia.biz, 1.Coldmedia.biz, etc.), it’s better to do it from the settings.

Open the web browser that is affected with the Coldmedia.biz pop-ups:

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

Now, find Coldmedia.biz, click the button next to it, select Block (or Deny), and you’re done. Likewise, block notifications from all sites that you don’t want to send you pop-ups. Coldmedia.biz is related to Catchnews.club, Videostay.club, and various sites that end with “.biz”.

Other protections

It is advisable to scan your computer with Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, or whatever anti-malware program you trust. As Coldmedia.biz shows some potentially dangerous ads, it’s good to make sure that nothing harmful was downloaded.

It’s not like Coldmedia.biz has any standards for what it advertises, so malicious actors who’ve been rejected by legitimate ad networks flock to it as one of the few options available. Thus, many of the ads that Coldmedia.biz shows are for crapware and for scams.

Also, consider blocking all notifications. Coldmedia.biz is not the only site that abuses them.

How Coldmedia.biz hijacks notifications

It lies to its visitors

Coldmedia.biz doesn’t have content like a normal site. It relays links and ads from its advertiser clients to its user audience through web push notifications. Although notifications aren’t meant for advertising (they're meant for time-sensitive updates), it’s common to use them to spread promoted content. Coldmedia.biz is especially bad. It’s aggressive and it doesn’t even ask for permission honestly.

Instead, it tries to trick people into giving it permission by lying. Above, you can see some examples of Coldmedia.biz pages. One says:

Press Allow to verify, that you are not a robot

Another says:

Press Allow to watch the video

When really, the Allow button refers to the pop-up above, on the left. It’s for granting Coldmedia.biz permission required to start sending notifications to this particular browser.

It’s advertised deceptively

Because Coldmedia.biz has no content, you won’t find it in web search results. Instead, it gets advertised. It appears in pop-ups, opening a new tab in your browser.

Sites that advertise Coldmedia.biz tend to be those that have slightly controversial content: software pirating, game cheat sites, free movie sites, and download sites (since they host a lot of pirated content).

When Coldmedia.biz is advertised on a download site, it shows the picture with a Download button. When it’s advertised on a streaming site, it shows the picture of a video player. It blends in with the sites it’s advertised on, confusing people and hiding the fact that it’s an ad. This way, Coldmedia.biz manipulates people into granting it permission to spam them with notification ads. That’s what the Chromium team calls abusive notifications.

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