How to stop cliegacklianons.com notifications

cliegacklianons.com is a generic scam website that attempts to trick users into allowing ads on their desktops. To achieve this, the site is misusing a legitimate browser feature that allows sites to ask users for permission to show notifications. However, if users give cliegacklianons.com permission, the site will spam ads.

 

 

cliegacklianons.com is empty of contents besides a video player that stops after several seconds. The site displays a message saying you need to click “Allow” to confirm you’re not a robot. The message is referring to the browser prompt that asks you to allow cliegacklianons.com to show notifications. The browser alert will appear as soon as you enter the site.

cliegacklianons.com, like many other sites, is misusing a legitimate browser feature that allows sites to request permission to show users useful content without them needing to visit the site. However, instead of offering anything useful, cliegacklianons.com and similar sites just bombard users with ads. The ads may purposely be made to resemble legitimate notifications, which can be confusing to users, prompting them to interact with them.

If you have given cliegacklianons.com permission to show notifications, you need to revoke it in your browser’s settings. Until you do, do not interact with notifications because they could expose you to malware, scams, and other dangerous content.

If you need help with revoking the permission, we have prepared instructions below.

Why are you redirected to sites like cliegacklianons.com?

There are several reasons why users may be redirected to sites like cliegacklianons.com. In very rare cases, random redirects can be a symptom of an adware infection. However, most commonly, users are redirected when browsing high-risk websites. If an adblocker program is not installed, users will be bombarded with ads. Certain sites, especially ones with pirated or pornographic content, expose users to a lot of advertisement content. Clicking on anything on those sites will often trigger a redirect. But these redirects are easily blockable with any decent adblocker program.

However, redirects to cliegacklianons.com may also be triggered by an adware infection, especially if redirects have occurred several times. Adware, browser hijackers, and similar infections are most often installed by users by accident via what’s known as the software bundling method. They are often bundled together with popular free programs as additional offers. Unfortunately, these offers are set to be installed alongside the programs they’re attached to automatically, despite being optional.

Added offers are optional but to stop them from installing, they must be manually deselected. This is made difficult by the fact that they are hidden in settings users don’t normally use. This makes software bundling a rather deceptive installation method.

As long as you pay attention when installing free programs, you should not have any issues preventing these unwanted installations. When installing a program, choose Advanced (Custom) settings instead of Default (Basic). The installation window will recommend using Default settings but these settings conceal all added offers and allow them to be installed.

Advanced or Custom settings will not only display the offers but also give you the option to deselect all of them. Some offers may initially appear useful but do not allow their installations. Legitimate programs do not use software bundling. Those that do are detected as potential threats by anti-virus programs. If you allow these installations, you will fill your computer with junk that can be difficult to get rid of.

How to stop cliegacklianons.com notifications?

We recommend you scan your computer with an anti-virus program to check for an adware infection just in case that’s what triggers the redirects. Adware can be troublesome to remove manually so we suggest using an anti-virus program. You also need to install a good adblocker program to block redirects and regular ads.

If you have given cliegacklianons.com permission to show you notifications, you can easily revoke it in your browser’s settings. If you need help, use the instructions provided below. Review all sites that have permission to show notifications and remove cliegacklianons.com and all others you do not recognize. If you don’t intend to use this feature, you can also turn off the notification requests altogether.

If you have given the site permission to show notifications, here’s how to revoke it:

• 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 cliegacklianons.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 cliegacklianons.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 cliegacklianons.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”.