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Why are some of your links triggering scammish popups? Is it supposed to be some sort of humor?
It was determined to be human error on my side. Fixed.
They are? Which ones?
The word "pay" in paragraph 1, the word "details" in paragraph 5, and the word "money" in paragraph 7. It's possible that either my computer or the LW site has some very creative adware.
Since the words you mention don't have any links, it's got to be your computer, or a proxy between your computer and LW.
It's your computer.
Congratulations, it is pregnant.
Like fubarubfusco says below, this is probably a malware issue. I saw something similar when a disk recovery program I didn't vet thoroughly enough infected me with a searchbar package that I'll leave nameless; MalwareBytes took care of most of it for me, though I had to do a little cleanup work myself.
It should probably be mentioned that most widespread antivirus packages won't catch this sort of thing; you need something that casts a broader net.
Your computer probably has a badware problem. If you are running Windows, try anti-spyware programs such as Spybot. Otherwise, check your browser proxy settings and browser extensions ....
I think it actually may have been an add-on that was intentionally (or just carelessly) installed into Firefox by another family member. I can shut it off myself. Seriously, who would download a program that explicitly promises more popups? (facepalm)
Depends how it's marketed. Or whether the person downloading it knew what they were downloading. Or even that they were downloading/installing something.
(emphasis added)
(Again, I should stop replying to comments without reading their ancestors first.)
I didn't find them either
I'm not seeing any popups?
Refer to the nested comment above for the details. So nobody else here has links on those words?
Pretty sure you've got some adware. Especially if the links are green and in a funny font.
Nope. Just you, I'm afraid.