Stopping iPhone high-jacking ?

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Stopping iPhone high-jacking ?

I view anime on my iphone fairly often.

The site I favor goes through spells of what I can only think of as infection, where something on the pages working through javascript forces my phone to the most useless iPhone apps buy pages in the Apple App-store.

Almost all of the scummy apps have 'in app offers' ......

This can happen for about 6-times from the same page before it settles down. [I'm a determined viewer]

I can prevent this by turning off javascript in the phone. But then the site doesn't work.

Bit by bit I have been able to forbid some of the sites that work through the java script [?] exploit. But other transport sites appear then to do the same highjacking and redirects.

I have two questions...

1. I would like to reliably prevent this App store highjacking. What works for that???

2. I would like to submit a list of these App Store buy pages to the proper App Store complaint department in the hopes that they will take action against them. Where is that?

I hope there is a solution to this.

And a third question..... Is there a Federal agency that deals with this sort of problem?

Thanks!

Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), Using Panasonic 39" TV at 1080

Posted on Aug 30, 2016 10:52 AM

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KiltedTim

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Aug 30, 2016 11:00 AM in response to mwbauers

mwbauers wrote:

1. I would like to reliably prevent this App store highjacking. What works for that???

2. I would like to submit a list of these App Store buy pages to the proper App Store complaint department in the hopes that they will take action against them. Where is that?

I hope there is a solution to this.

And a third question..... Is there a Federal agency that deals with this sort of problem?

Thanks!

1: Stop visiting skeevy sites that do this. Yes, I know you like that site, but sooner or later, something has to give. If you like it enough to deal with their incessant intrusive advertising practices, then keep visiting it and deal with the result. If it bothers you that much then take your eyeballs (and thus, the revenue they generate from pushing ads to you) somewhere else.

2: You can use the contact us link at the bottom of the page to send feedback to Apple.

3: There are no federal regulations that address this that I'm aware of. What they are doing is not illegal. Annoying, yes. Illegal, no.

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mwbauers Author

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Aug 30, 2016 11:40 AM in response to mwbauers

I should add....

This problem only happens with my iPhone. There is no similar problem with my computer access on various Macs with different generations of Mac-OS.

As I see it, this is a problem that will noticably spread to other mobile accessed sites as well.

It needs a working solution.

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KiltedTim

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Aug 30, 2016 12:00 PM in response to mwbauers

That's because it detects the mobile browser and redirects to the app store hoping to suck you into downloading those apps.

The "working solution" is to not patronize web properties that engage in intrusive advertising.

Communicate your displeasure to the webmaster of the site. This is not Apple's problem to solve.

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