Safari not blocking popups

I have all my preferences set to block popups but I'm getting flooded with them. It seams like evertime I go to a new page I get redirected to something I would never go to such as "Look up you credit report" or "rent a baby elephant". It's all a bunch of bull. I like Mac and Safari because I do not have to deal with this but after installing OS X Mavericks 10.9 and Safari 7.0 that's all I'm getting.

With all cookies blocked, do not track, etc. enabled. I delete all bad cookies (e.g., Google, ad****), do nothing, and in minutes tens or hundreds are re-installed. Google requires only that I delete cookis to put them back. Apple, how do I set up blacklists for cookies?

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that's just the nature of the beast.
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On Safari, I have popups blocked and on Private Browsing, this eve I did a Gooogle Search, in the results, I clicked on the 'cache' part, encyclopedia something etc .com, and I got a popup Window: 'Notice: your computer has tracks of all.... etc, Would you like to Install "DriveCleaner to" .
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I am having the same problems even though I have popups blocked on Safari. I am getting popups from drivecleaner and errorprotector. I was also 'stuck' where nothing worked except to cancel or agree to drivecleaner.
The same with errorprotector, except when I clicked on cancel, another popup opened still not allowing me to do anything other than to cancel or agree. When I clicked cancel to that, a window opened and that window tried to download something on my system. Force quit didn't even work, I had to manually shut the computer off. This has happened 5 times this week already.
I also didn't get a window from Apple so I could report the problem.
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