How to remove Touchmedia.me pop-ups [Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge]

Touchmedia.me is a misleading website that tries to force you and other unsuspecting victims into registering for its spam notifications. It claims that users need to press ‘Allow’ button in order to download a file, access the content of the web site, watch a video, connect to the Internet, enable Flash Player, and so on.

Touchmedia.me

Once you clicks on the ‘Allow’ button, the Touchmedia.me webpage gets your permission to send push notifications in form of popup advertisements in the right bottom corner of the screen. The push notifications will promote ‘free’ online games, prize & lottery scams, dubious web browser extensions, adult web-pages, and fake software as displayed in the following example.

If you are getting spam notifications, you can remove Touchmedia.me subscription by going into your browser’s settings and following the Touchmedia.me removal guide below. Once you remove Touchmedia.me subscription, the push notifications will no longer display on your screen.

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How to remove Touchmedia.me pop-ups, ads, notifications (Removal guidance)

According to experienced security experts, Touchmedia.me popup advertisements removal can be complete manually and/or automatically. These tools that are listed below will allow you delete adware, harmful web-browser addons, malicious software and potentially unwanted applications . However, if you’re not willing to install other programs to remove Touchmedia.me pop-up advertisements, then use guidance below to revert back your PC system settings to defaults.

To remove Touchmedia.me pop ups, execute the steps below:

1. How to remove Touchmedia.me popup ads without any software
   • Remove Touchmedia.me pop-up ads from web browsers
   • Remove Touchmedia.me notifications from web-browsers
2. Use AdBlocker to block Touchmedia.me and stay safe online

How to remove Touchmedia.me popup ads without any software

Most unwanted pop-ups may be deleted without any antivirus apps. The manual adware removal is guidance that will teach you how to get rid of the Touchmedia.me pop up ads.

Remove Touchmedia.me pop-up ads from web browsers

If you have ‘Touchmedia.me pop-ups’ removal problem, then remove unwanted extensions can help you. In the steps below we will show you the solution to remove harmful extensions without reinstall. This will also allow to delete Touchmedia.me ads from your web-browser.

Google Chrome	Mozilla Firefox
In the top right corner, click on Google Chrome’s main menu button, represented by three vertical dots. In the menu go to ‘More tools’, then ‘Extensions’. Click ‘Remove’ to uninstall an extension. Click ‘Remove’ in the dialog box. You can also try to delete Touchmedia.me popups by reset Google Chrome settings.	Click on ‘menu’ button and select ‘Add-ons’. Go to ‘Extensions’ tab. To uninstall an add-on, click on ‘Remove’ button next to it. If you are still experiencing issues with Touchmedia.me ads removal, you need to reset Firefox browser.
Internet Explorer	Safari
Click ‘Tools’ button in the top-right corner. Select ‘Manage add-ons’. In the drop-down menu under ‘Show’, select ‘All add-ons’. To delete an add-on, double-click it; in the new window click ‘Remove’. Another method to remove Touchmedia.me popup ads from Internet Explorer is reset Internet Explorer settings.	On the top menu select ‘Safari’, then ‘Preferences’. Select ‘Extensions’ tab. Select an extension you want to delete and click ‘Uninstall’ button next to it.

Remove Touchmedia.me notifications from web-browsers

If you’ve allowed the Touchmedia.me site to send browser notification spam to your browser, then we’ll need to remove these permissions. Depending on browser, you can use the steps below to delete the Touchmedia.me permissions to send push notifications.

Google Chrome	Android
Just copy and paste the following text into the address bar of Chrome. chrome://settings/content/notifications Press Enter. Delete the Touchmedia.me URL and other rogue notifications by clicking three vertical dots button next to each and selecting ‘Remove’.	Open Google Chrome. In the top-right corner, find the Google Chrome menu. In the menu tap ‘Settings’, scroll down to ‘Advanced’. In the ‘Site Settings’ section tap the ‘Notifications’ settings, find the Touchmedia.me URL and tap on it. Tap the ‘Clean & Reset’ button and confirm.
Mozilla Firefox	Edge
Click ‘Tools’ button in the top-right corner. In the drop-down menu select ‘Options’. In the left side select ‘Privacy & Security’. Scroll down to ‘Permissions’ and then to ‘Settings’ next to ‘Notifications’. Select the Touchmedia.me domain from the list and change the status to ‘Block’. Click ‘Save Changes’ button.	You can also turn off the Touchmedia.me spam notifications through the action center. Click the ‘action center’ button in the bottom-right corner of your screen. Right-click the notification from the Touchmedia.me website. Click ‘Turn off notifications for this site’.
Internet Explorer	Safari
Click ‘Tools’ button in the top-right corner. Go to ‘Internet Options’ in the menu. Click on the ‘Privacy’ tab and select ‘Settings’ in the pop-up blockers section. Find the Touchmedia.me domain and click the ‘Remove’ button to remove the URL.	On the top menu select ‘Safari’, then ‘Preferences’. In the left menu click on ‘Notifications’. Find the Touchmedia.me URL and select it, click the ‘Deny’ button.

Use AdBlocker to block Touchmedia.me and stay safe online

One of the worst things is the fact that you cannot stop all those annoying websites like Touchmedia.me using only built-in Microsoft Windows capabilities. However, there is a application out that you can use to stop annoying internet browser redirects, advertisements and pop ups in any modern web-browsers including Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Internet Explorer. It’s called Adguard and it works very well.

First, visit the page linked below, then press the ‘Download’ button in order to download the latest version of AdGuard.

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Update: November 15, 2018

After downloading it, double-click the downloaded file to start it. The “Setup Wizard” window will show up on the computer screen as displayed in the figure below.

Follow the prompts. AdGuard will then be installed and an icon will be placed on your desktop. A window will show up asking you to confirm that you want to see a quick tutorial such as the one below.

Click “Skip” button to close the window and use the default settings, or click “Get Started” to see an quick tutorial which will help you get to know AdGuard better.

Each time, when you run your PC system, AdGuard will start automatically and stop undesired ads, block Touchmedia.me, as well as other malicious or misleading web pages. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the AdGuard icon, that is located on your desktop.