when I open gmail, this super annoying popup opens.
How can I stop this from happening?
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What does the pop-up look like? A pop-up ad on GMail sounds like malware or injected page content by your ISP or a rogue web proxy.– David FoersterCommented Feb 16, 2015 at 0:33
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Actually, I've realized now it doesn't come from gmail itself, the popup happens after I click on the gmail icon, and then get a prompt to enter my login id, but BEFORE I enter my id. Following sam's suggestion I'm hoping to block it with adblock, but it didn't initially work. I added a custom filter to addblock, that should fix it.– Leo SimonCommented Feb 16, 2015 at 4:13
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How do you access the login page? Do you go directly to the encrypted version? If yes, does Google Chrome complain about mismatching server certificates (Google Chrome pins the official certificates in case your hostel/employer/ISP/government has a valid man-in-the-middle certificate)?– David FoersterCommented Feb 16, 2015 at 17:37
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Take a look at adblock plus or similar browser plugins. I have never had a gmail popup in any browser since installing it.
Well, playing around with this, I discovered that the problem had nothing to do with gmail at all. I'd set facebook as an additional tab to open on startup. It was the facebook link that was being hijacked. When I removed the facebook url from my set of startup page I was able to open without problems. Ugh, this hijack was extremely aggressive also, and not deterred by adblock. Each time I listed the hijacking url, another one would take it's place. Felt like I was in Windows Land. Hopefully deleting the facebook tab will fix things! Thanks for your help... – L
answered Feb 16, 2015 at 21:38
