Randomly redirected to **** ads from some Safari pages
I am having a strange, frustrating, and potentially embarrassing issue in Safari on my iPhone 4, running iOS 6. When browsing some seemingly normal websites, the page will redirect at random times to a **** ad (most commonly to Badoink dot com, but there are several other examples) without having clicked on anything. Just to be clear, this is not a pop-up ad, and I do have pop-ups disabled in my settings - I am redirected directly to the ad page in the same window I was originally in. If I tap on the back button in the browser, sometimes I am successful in getting back to the original page, but most times it will just continue to reload and redirect to an endless array of mobile **** site ads.
Before an assumption is made, no I do not look up **** on my iPhone/Safari, and it is not a product of having data from these sites saved on my phone, which you can see if you read on. I have also found other examples on message boards of people having the same issue (although the original site visited varies, from the Huffington Post, to Salon.com, to a random message board site).
My phone seems to mainly redirect from theCHIVE.com, which I frequently waste time on. It will sometimes happen as soon as I click on a link to view a post on the site, sometimes it will happen halfway through loading the page, and sometimes it will happen a couple minutes after a page has been loaded and it will automatically redirect to one of these **** ads without clicking on anything. Other times, it will be a page which is loaded in Safari already, and I'll close Safari and reopen it a few hours later, and by reopening Safari, it will refresh the page and automatically redirect and take me to one of these NSFW ad pages.
I have tried everything I can think of, and everything that was suggested on other message boards which also discussed this problem.
I have tried the following:
1) Cleared all cookies and data, closed all apps and did a hard reset
2) Turned on "Limit Ad Tracking" in settings>general>about>advertising
3) Reset network settings in settings>general>reset, just for fun, knowing this probably wouldn't do anything
4) Erased all content and restored through iTunes, using an older saved backup from July that was saved on my computer
5) Erased all content and restored by iCloud, using my most recent iCloud backup
6) Erased all content and set up as a new iPhone, restoring through iCloud only my contacts, calendar, reminders and notes
Here is the most troubling part: I am still having this problem even though this has been set up as a new device. I am really desperate for help at this point.
It has not happened to me in Chrome yet, but Safari's reading list is one of my most-used features, plus there is no way to make Chrome my default browser, and it's annoying to switch between 2 browsers all the time.
**As a side note, disabling JavaScript doesn't seem to work. As a temporary fix, it seems as though I have been able to prevent this from happening when I change "Accept Cookies" to "Never," instead of "From visited" which I would prefer not to have to change. Other than that, there seems to be no fix.
There has to be some deeper root cause of this problem somewhere.
iPhone 4, iOS 6
