Coupon Time is the name under which we identify an adware that in 99% of the times arrives at your computer without you even noticing it. Its principal goal is pretty straight forward: to show as much publicity as possible when you’re browsing the internet. It won’t fall short on its quest… Coupon Time will quickly start inserting ads in every website you visit specially those of e-commerce like Amazon. These ads are inserted in real time, which is the main cause of unexpected problems and a sudden decline on the quality of your preferred websites’ visual look. To identify Coupon Time’s ads is quite easy, as they are often tagged as Ads by Coupon Time, Coupon Time Ads or powered by Coupon Time.
Coupon Time also acts like a spyware would by spying everything you do online, meaning all the websites you visit and every web search you make; on a first approach they use to customize the ads shown, but they also use this data to save it in databases they can sell afterwards.
To avoid this kind of problem in the future, be very careful with what you download, always check what every pre-selected case will mean on a long term before going for the always appealing “Next” button. And last but not least, always try to download from official websites and stay away from download platforms like Softonic or 01net.
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