# Hiding Popup Overlays When Monitoring Pages for Changes

Source: PageCrawl.io Help Center
URL: https://pagecrawl.io/help/reduce-false-positives/article/automatically-hiding-overlays-to-avoid-popups-from-triggering-notifications

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When you visit a website for the first time, you may sometimes encounter an annoying ad or offer that overlays the content. While this is usually not a problem when monitoring websites for changes, it can still sometimes cause false-positive alerts if screenshots capture the content overlaid with the popup. These popups may only appear once, or for specific visitors or geographic locations.

#### The "Hide Website Overlays & Popups" Action
To mitigate false positives, we highly recommend using the "Hide website overlays & popups" action on affected pages. Keep in mind that this may not work on all pages.

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#### Alternative Approach
If the "Hide website overlays & popups" action did not work, or if all content on the page becomes invisible, you can manually target the overlay with the ["Remove page element" action](/help/reduce-false-positives/article/how-to-exclude-page-section.md) to exclude it.

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