Pop ups "force open" App Store

As a user, that solution prevents me from buying me whatever I want so, not really what I wanted.

As a dev... I just wanted to register here that this seems to be the intended behaviour for links. I am working on this website for a musician who actually wants to sell his albums from iTunes Store. I made his album pictures link to the iTunes Stores. For desktops it works just fine, if the person wants to buy it, they click it. that's it. But I was shocked when I went to test the site on my iPhone, and it immediately opened the itunes Store. I NEVER meant the site to be like that. I HAVEN'T yet found a way to make it work differently. So just to let you guys know. Devs aren't evil.

*wanders back to dev forums*

SO my iPad 4 is possessed ?

In the the last couple of weeks i keep getting automatically being redirected to the App Store when using Apples browser?

I'm not touching anything, just boom out of Safari and into apps store. I've also had my setting set the same, which is the same as others here have suggested. But still being redirected way too many times a day!

THis ( so why the caps on the first two letters of a new paragraph now) is absolutely crazy for apple to allow these redirects, especially since all the available tools are in force to prevent such behaviour !

ANd and to those of you that don't think it's an Apple problem, I ask you why my Windows 7/8 devices NEVER do this.

MY iPad and phone are getting more buggy and useless by the day!

TCortese7, you phenomenal god-like being, thank you for this genius answer! I've seen the App Store way more than I normally would due to this issue, cos otherwise it's not like I'm buying an app every other day. Again, thank you!!!

Well I did everything I could find to do. After the big restore, which was fun in of itself. For some reason iTunes just disappears from windows after updating or trying to update. So after numerous attempts at getting iTunes working again,update wouldn't work from iTunes itself which finally caused iTunes to physically disappear from windows? Had to download iTunes and reinstall, even had trouble downloading the software!

in any case a clean install and restore the issue hasnt shown up, but I'm still getting system reboots when using Safari. You can see hesitation in safari as if It's having trouble doing something, then BANG I'm shown the apple logo and a reboot is in progress.

KInd of reminds me of the early Days of windows, when it didn't handle multi-tasking errors very well.

HOw ironic how well windows works these days compared to my two IOS7 devices !

I had the problem also. A few days ago, bought the Weblock app for $2, and I haven't had the problem since then. It takes a couple of minutes to set up the app according to the instructions and your preferences, but it seems to work.

TCortese7's solution did not work for me, still having the issue.

this is incredibly annoying an unacceptable behavior in a product. just the messages on this thread cover a year, i can't believe apple has let this persist for so long.

This problem, instead of going away, has become ubiquitous. When advertisers started doing this and realized Apple was unwilling to stop it, they expanded their use. Now its a problem on a wide variety of respectable sites, including Keenspot, HuffPo, CNN, NYT, and more. Apple needs to forbid opening app store links from Safari, period. End of story. Any other solution will inevitably be worked around.

I don' have any solutions, but am glad its not some kind of virus or something on my iPhone. Today I started getting that pop-up on the Facebook app and completely freaked out. I don't really want to block the App Store on my phone, and I have my Facebook settings as secure as they allow 😁 but I do not like this at all.

Apple should be chastised for letting this go on for so long, and worsen. Maybe if the media writes an article about it they'll finally do something. I have an android phone (work) and an iphone 6 (personal). I am in the habit of using my android phone instead of my iphone for applications with this issue.

The workarounds all of various annoyances with them. I've settled on using Mercury Browser as a fix for web browsing, though I prefer Chrome.

I agree on this. The only feasible way I see to block if while taking advantage of Safari's features ( icloud sync, 1password, and other extensions ) is to disable access to the iTunes store in the restrictions settings. Someone at Apple thought this was an acceptable solution. I disagree.

You could try a popup blocker, I use this:

Adblock Mobile — Protect your phone from annoying ads. Best ad blocker to block advertisements on your iPhone and iPad. by Jennifer Hernandez

https://appsto.re/gb/2uU02.i

I agree on this. The only feasible way I see to block if while taking advantage of Safari's features ( icloud sync, 1password, and other extensions ) is to disable access to the iTunes store in the restrictions settings. Someone at Apple thought this was an acceptaok. I disagree.

I had a big problem when this was happening to me with the ads in the free iOS apps, mainly because it was Apple's ad service. I agree that not only Apple but even all other browsers need to do something even on computers. The new style popups are making it past the pop up blockers built into the browsers and they need to be updated. However if I frequent a web page on my iOS device that has an ad that pops me into the app store I will first send the web site's developers the first note as to how annoying this is and if it continues they will lose me and probably many others as a frequent visitor. They may not know the advertising service they are using is using these bad techniques which are annoying their visitors. If the behaviour continues, I leave, I don't need these annoyances. Then I will send Apple Feedback to remind them this type of behaviour needs to be blocked.

I Absolutely hate hate hate this and everybody should know about it. I just wonder what the advertisers are thinking. Yeah, I'm like the most loyal and interested customer when I get some stupid app thrown in my face. ***?

Well, it is definitely annoying. Seems to me that iphone needs a hard back button, similar to what has become the "triangle" button on Android. Stop and go back. Let to soft browser back buttons and a single "home" button, one is vulnerable to such exploits.