Is there any way to unlink Safari from an App completely without doing a factory reset?
I have a MMO game App called Galaxy on Fire Alliances (GOFA) developed by Fish Labs that started opening Safari and a kind of pop up asks me to log into Facebook EVERY time I open the game which to me constitutes a "redirect" malware like behavior by opening Safari without my permission. This happens on both my iPad3 and my iPhone 4S. Ironically the FB page that opens in Safari (which I never use or open otherwise) says I already authorized GOFA and FB already.
At one point long before this started Fish Labs offered some free in game credits for linking the app to Facebook which I accepted. I was fine when everything related worked behind the scenes. Suddenly one day my profile picture from FB which includes myself and 15 year old daughter started appearing on my screen in game which I felt was an unauthorized invasion of privacy. I did not get any help on their forum to resolve it so I unauthorized any link between the app and Facebook on both sides of the issue which is when this all started.
- Eventually I created another FB account linked to another email address, reauthorized linking on both ends and I used an avatar for a profile pic that worked for a month but my email address was too similar to my primary one and FB closed the account.
- Created another email account completely unrelated to my other two, pened another FB account with the avatar profile pic and this worked for 2-3 months but I started getting the same issue again and can't remember the Facebook login details for that last one anymore.
- Opened multiple support tickets with Fish Labs and they insist there is no Facebook link for my account on their software or servers and that the link must be in Safari. They said the only way to fix it is to do a factory reset which would be my last choice.
I am also concerned that if I need to restore my iPad and iPhone to get all my contacts, notes and apps all recovered easily that whatever background data that is causing this link will also be restored right back in the process.
Alternatively I decided to try;
- Clear all Safari browser history and cache on both devices at the same time first. No joy
- Again cleared all Safari browser history and cache, uninstalled GOFA on both devices, did the hard shut down and restart on both devices and then after a complete restart I cleared Safari one more time (shouldn't be anything left there but trying to cover all potentials) before reinstalling GOFA . Still no joy.
I performed all the above steps in parallel on both devices. I really don't want to spend the time doing a full factory reset if there is any other way and I am not convinced the problem won't just reappear the second I restore my devices.
Any recommendations?
iPad (3rd gen) Wi-Fi, iOS 6