What is this kind of ads called and how do I stop them?

When visiting some sites and often some ads infested websites, I often encounter those kind of ads that triggered when I clicked on something. It's like there's some transparent button that covering some areas of the web and proceed to open several tabs of ads. What is this called? And how do I stop this because I'm annoyed by this? I have uBo installed, my browser is Firefox. No malware or any such thing as far this system runs. I know there's some switch somewhere to prevent this from happening, I just wanna know what is that called.



Submitted April 28, 2018 at 04:38PM by sevenorbs https://ift.tt/2r4I4HW

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