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Cloudfront

I have cloudfront on both my IPhone 11 and IPad 7th generation. Both are upgraded to 13.5.1. It’s been there since January 2020. I do not use Amazon. I have done some research and know what Amazon uses it for. I believe it is causing me great difficulties. I have read that it often has malware or adware attached to it. I often get You’ve been redirected pages. Any suggestions on how to get rid of this?

Thank you!

Posted on Jun 27, 2020 4:26 PM

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Jul 7, 2020 8:16 PM in response to Eric Root

I hardly back up anything not required. I haven’t even had a device that’s backed up since 3/24/2020. IPhone says never backed up. It was swapped on 2/23/2020. I need all my data right now. I will for 60:days or so. Now, storage is not recording at all. I use everything but podcasts everyday, including today. I digress, I was looking for last back up.yuk! I’m the software killer. My super power.

Jul 4, 2020 4:54 PM in response to Eric Root

I’m ashamed to admit I’ve done a bit of snooping. It was by accident. I searched Cloudfront and noticed you’d done a bit of assisting. I still can’t kick that darn Cloudfront. I’ve done a bit of inexperienced, layman’s research and if I’m not wrong it’s a pay and go service also. I hate to install anything and am having trouble with the manual removal. I’m planning on a factory reset in not too long. Will that also get rid of it? Thank you and Happy Fourth if you’re in the states.

Jul 6, 2020 2:30 PM in response to Eric Root

Eric Root wrote:

You are welcome. The factory reset should get rid of it as long as you don't restore it from a backup you made.

By restoring it from back up do you mean using same ID? That’s a choice at the beginning, correct? When I choose don’t use back up, will I lose everything? Pictures, music, Apple TV etc.... Cloud front has been hanging around since January.. I haven’t backed up since 3/24/2020 on ipad . Phone says never backed up. Thank you so much


Aug 12, 2020 8:49 PM in response to Eric Root

Thanks for the response! :). I have a couple other sites or whatever they are like cloudfront. The Bright tag and a .xyz I only use Safari with DuckDuckGo and on private.

https://www.howtogeek.com/295677/WHAT-IS-CLOUDFLARE-AND-DID-IT-REALLY-LEAK-MY-DATA-ALL-OVER-THE-INTERNET/

the above shows up in Website data if I forget to put it in private which is pretty rare. I’m sorry to bother you. Really. Thanks and I’ll not reach out anymore. You’ve been very helpful and I can see you are really knowledgeable. Stay safe.

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