Safari redirected to control kochava

This is actually the result of nefarious ads. Kochava is a tracking platform that helps advertisers serve relevant content to users. Unfortunately, as you found, a control.kochava.com URL is what shows up when these fraudulent publishers hijack users' browsers.

In terms of dealing with this issue, here's an excerpt from a blog post we put together to shed more light on the topic, as well as help folks like you deal with this kind of problem.

The most nefarious of these auto-redirects are self-perpetuating. As soon as you switch to the browser on your mobile device, you’re redirected, making it impossible to access the content you’re trying to find. The immediate solution is to restart your browser and notify the website on which this occurred. PLEASE NOTE: this is NOT caused by the website you’re viewing or the tracking service (Kochava or others), but the ad network serving the ad. The ad network itself is often also a victim of fraudsters within their network and they are just as anxious to stop it.

I hope this is helpful. Here's a link to the full post, if you're interested: https://www.kochava.com/dealing-mobile-fraud-2/