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How to get rid of bothersome advertisement popup?

Quiet often when I am surfing with Chrome I get a little popup at the right bottom corner of my screen. It advertises a company called Tom''s Hardware. I have tried different ways to get rid of it, but to no avail. Does anybody know what this is and how to stop this nonsense?
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Toms Hardware http://www.tomshardware.com/ is a well known web site.  I suspect that they are NOT the cause of your problem.

What I do suspect is that you have installed an extension for Chrome that is doing this.  Check all of your extensions especially any recently installed.

Also scan your computer with AdwCleaner  https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ followed up by MalwareBytes  https://www.malwarebytes.com/ (free version).

That hopefully should fix the problem.
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Unfortunately I am running Linux Mint 17.3. Any suggestions here?
Sigh.

Check your extensions then.  Disable as many as possible and retest and see if the problem goes away.
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Does a little gear icon appear when you see this popup?  If you click the gear icon it should take you to a place to disable those notifications.

Or you can access this area by following these steps:

Go to Chrome
Settings
Show advanced settings
Privacy > Content settings
Pop-ups > Manage exceptions
Is toms hardware listed in there as 'Allow' ?

If yes, then block it.
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