Karl Taylor it looks like Google is definitely going after sites with Popup ads, specifically in mobile at this time, but they may be preparing to go after popup ads in general on desktop computers. It was simply overlooked on my part to not fully check the website in mobile after implementing the ad code, and although I checked a page here and there, the ads were targeting random pages, so I was not able to accurately see how severe those ads were that brought about a penalty.

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