Ad pop up in Facebook app and Safari!

Hi!

I was experiencing the same issue lately, and tried everything, from clearing my cache in safari, to removing and installing the facebook app multiple times, but the pop-ups kept being shown.

The thing is, I only experienced it when clicking on links via facebook, never in safari, so I started digging and I found a solution which for me seems to work: Clearing your phone's browsing data within the Facebook app.

This is how you can do that:

- Go to the facebook app

- open the account menu (on most phones shown as the 3 stripes at the bottom left of the screen)

- scroll down and press 'settings'

- choose 'account settings'

- go to 'Browser'

- press 'clear data'

As explained on this screen, you will clear your phone's cookis and cache from websites you've visited while using the facebook app. These were not removed when you cleared the safari cache, and apparently also not when removing the app.

Hope this works for you too!

Same here. No new apps, no unusual browsing. The popup has no option to close it--just an OK option. I end up closing the FB app or Safari and then opening it again, but it always comes back eventually.

Hi Moobrain and all others out here ending up on this page,

like all of you I also ended up with nasty popups and being forwarded where I didn't had any choice.

This happens because you either on purpose or not visited some advertisement.

By clearing website data from Safari this all stops :)

Go to Settings -> Safari

Then you may choose for yourself,

->Clear history and Website Data

or go to -> Advanced ->

oops...

-> advanced -> Website Data

From here, again you can Clear all Website data

or.. go through your whole history and all cookies that are on your safari per website and delete the ones you want to delete.

This will solve your issue

My apologies for the second post, I accidentally submitted while typing it, and can't find where to edit my post using my iPhone

Very helpful! There's also a bunch of settings for Ads that is well worth trolling through to make it as hard as possible for advertisers to collect information from your account. Rather a lot of ways, it turns out.

You could try an ad blocker app from the app store, I use

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 which works on both wifi & cellular via a vpn or there's

Weblock - AdBlock for iOS by FutureMind

https://appsto.re/gb/ovUtH.i for just wifi devices. Out of the two Adblock Mobile is the best.

I'm sorry for awakening this thread again after so long, but I started experiencing this problem two days ago.

It's only when I've clicked an article link in the Facebook app it happens, I have blocked pop ups (in Safari, can't find anything similar for the FB app) and have adblocker for iPhone installed already.

I close and restart the app, and the add usually goes away, but it still worries me.

I have not downloaded any new apps in weeks, so I don't have a clue why it started...

Me too! I haven't added any apps in forever and have no idea why these pop ups started now or what to do about them.

It doesn't seem like Apple support is any help. Does anyone know how to stop these pop ups yet?

I have now the same problem and cleaning history and all webstite data doesn't help.. 😐 does anybody have any other ideas how can I block the pop-up ads on Facebook?

Facebook is the most flawed URL ever and its never going to get better.....