Internet browsing tracking (potential privacy issues), displaying of unwanted ads, redirects to shady websites, loss of private information. Your Mac became slower than normal, you see unwanted pop-up ads, you get redirected to shady websites.ĭeceptive pop-up ads, free software installers (bundling), fake flash player installers, torrent file downloads. These are the two main reasons why none of the apps of this type should be installed on a browser or operating system. Moreover, their developers usually send them to other people (potentially cyber criminals) who misuse them to generate revenue. Another reason to uninstall adware is information tracking: apps of this type often are designed to gather details about their users, for example, their IP addresses, geolocations, entered search queries, addresses of visited websites, etc. Typically, it is impossible not to notice such ads because they are get displayed on all (or most) visited pages and conceal their contents.
In most cases people who click them get redirected to untrustworthy and/or deceptive websites or these ads run scripts that download (or even install) some PUA or potentially malicious app. Examples of advertisements that adware displays are various banners, pop-ups, coupons, surveys, and so on.
