bidrdtrck.com is a deceptive website that tries to trick users into allowing ads on their desktops. When you get redirected to the site, you will immediately see a browser notification saying “bidrdtrck.com wants to show notifications”. The site is misusing a legitimate browser feature. Legitimate sites would show useful content but bidrdtrck.com spams ads.
bidrdtrck.com does not have anything on it, besides a message saying you need to click “Allow” to continue. Your browser will also show you a browser alert saying “bidrdtrck.com wants to show notifications”. If you click “Allow”, the site will start spamming ads directly to your desktop. Since this feature is legitimate, legitimate sites show legitimate notifications. However, bidrdtrck.com simply spams ads. Do not interact with those ads because you could be exposed to harmful content, including scams and malware.
While the feature is often misused, it is completely legitimate. You can give sites permission to show notifications as long as you know the content they show will be of use. The feature may even be useful in some cases. If you, for example, want to see important news without having to visit a news website, you can give your preferred news site permission to show notifications.
It’s easy to revoke a site’s permission to show notifications as long as you know how to navigate your browser’s settings. We have provided instructions at the end of this report if you need help with revoking the site’s permission.
What triggers redirects to sites like bidrdtrck.com
When users get redirected to questionable websites, it’s usually because they don’t have an adblocker program when browsing high-risk sites. These high-risk websites try to expose users to as much advertisement content as possible. Sites that have pornographic or pirated content, for example, are particularly guilty of this. Fortunately, these redirects can be easily blocked with a decent adblocker program.
Being redirected randomly when on safe websites could mean an adware infection. As far as infections go, it’s not dangerous but the ads it exposes you to will be very annoying. These infections get installed via what’s called the software bundling method. infections come attached to free programs as extra offers and are permitted to be installed without requiring explicit permission. Because of how deceptive it is, the method is quite controversial. It’s not uncommon for programs that use it to be detected as potential threats by anti-virus programs.
Added offers are always optional and preventing their installations is not difficult, as long as you pay attention when installing free programs. When installing a program, make sure to use Advanced (Custom) settings. Though the installation window always recommends you use Default settings, if you do that, all of the added offers will be installed alongside automatically. Advanced settings, on the other hand, will make all offers visible and give you the option to deselect all of them. All you need to do is uncheck the boxes.
Allowing any extra offers to be installed is not a good idea, even if some of them initially appear useful. By allowing these installations, you will quickly fill your computer with junk programs that can be troublesome to get rid of when fully installed. Deselecting a couple of boxes when installing programs is significantly easier and much less time-consuming.
How to stop bidrdtrck.com redirects
We strongly recommend you scan your computer with an anti-virus program to check for an adware infection. If you’ve been redirected to bidrdtrck.com and similar sites several times, it may be a symptom of adware. Using an anti-virus program is a good idea because adware infections can be tricky to get rid of manually. To block future redirects and ads, you also need to install a good adblocker program.
It’s not difficult to revoke a site’s permission to show notifications via the browser’s settings. If bidrdtrck.com is currently spamming ads, use the directions provided below. You can also turn this feature off if you don’t want to get notification requests.
- Mozilla Firefox: Open the menu (the three bars at the top-right corner), click Options, then Privacy & Security. Scroll down to Permissions, press Settings next to Notifications, and remove bidrdtrck.com and any other questionable websites from the list. It’s possible to permanently turn off push notification requests by checking the “Block new requests asking to allow notifications” box in the same Notifications settings.
- Google Chrome: Open the menu (the three dots top-right corner), then Settings, then Privacy and security, then Site Settings. Click on Notifications under Permissions, and remove bidrdtrck.com and any other questionable websites from the list. It’s possible to permanently turn off push notification requests by toggling off “Sites can ask to send notifications”.
- Microsoft Edge: Open the menu (the three dots top-right corner), then Settings, then Cookies and site permissions, then Notifications. Review which sites have permission and remove bidrdtrck.com and any other questionable websites from the list. It’s possible to permanently turn off push notification requests by toggling off “Ask before sending”.
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