Ytmp3 dot cc Pop-ups on Mac
Ytmp3 dot cc is a website that allows visitors to convert YouTube links to digital audio or video files and save offline copies of those YouTube links. There are two issues with the website, however. First of all, doing this is against YouTube's terms of service, as the platform does not allow offline saving of its content. More importantly, however, Ytmp3 dot cc is a website that serves advertising from dubious ad networks and visiting it can have a negative impact on your system.
You may find random pop-ups and ads you never saw before start appearing as you browse. The Ytmp3 dot cc site also asks for permission to send push notifications - something it has no real reason to request. The ads served on the website are extremely aggressive and may link to potentially unsafe websites. Visiting some of those links may lead to further infection with actual, dangerous malware or potentially unwanted programs.
Rogue ad networks serve their ads through a huge number of websites similar to Ytmp3 dot cc and even though this particular website works and does what it sets out to do, you should steer clear of it, due to the ad content it serves and the extremely obnoxious and aggressive manner in which those ads are served.
If you view Ytmp3 dot cc when using an ad blocker extension in your browser, you may not see much of an issue with the website, but if you disable your ad blocker and refresh the page, you will see a very different picture - tons of advertising splayed all over the previously clean page, as well as pop-up boxes asking you for permission to send push notifications. Similar pop-up requests are commonly used by rogue websites to install unwanted software on the user's system.
The best thing you can do when you run into similar sites is to steer clear of them and never click on any advertising served on the page. Don't rely on your ad blocker to keep you safe from all dubious advertising online, because there are always widgets and pop-ups that can get past the filters and lead to a potential infection of your system.
