The invention relates to a method and a device for displaying popup messages, and belongs to the field of computer technologies. The method comprises the steps of receiving a spoiler content shielding request sent by a terminal; acquiring popup messages after a current playing time in a target video currently played by the terminal; for each popup message, determining a reference word and a corresponding spoiler probability included in the popup message based on a pre-stored corresponding relation between the reference words and the spoiler probabilities, determining the spoiler probability of the popup message according to the reference word and the corresponding spoiler probability included in the popup message, and if the spoiler probability of the popup message is more than a preset threshold, determining that the popup message is the popup message to be filtered; and sending the other popup messages in the popup messages except the popup message to be filtered to the terminal, thus allowing the terminal to display the other popup messages during a target video playing process. By using the method and device provided by the invention, user experience during a network video watching process can be improved.