I keep getting this Congratulations Amazon.com User

I went to Safari settings, Advanced, and turned off JavaScript.

That seems to have solved the issue for me.

Hi. It's an ad provided by your friends at Kohl's. You can just close it and ignore it.

Settings > Safari > Clear History and Website Data may help, or not...

Yes your correct, I am having the problem in Firefox now. So it’s not a specific browser or application. I am going to keep Java script off and see if the problem persist. That is the last thing, that I can try on my IPad, like I said above, I use this IPad for basic web browsin. So I do not have anything extra installed on this IPad.

Hey, Apple tech support, find it, fix it. And get us an update to download. The main reason I switched to amazon and iPads 6 years ago. Because laptops and Windows was being attacked left and right with virus and hacks. I hope it doesn’t start with this Apple products. Or everyone is screwed.

look at my last post it may help.

It doesn’t have anything to do with Kohl’s - or amazon - it’s spam and it pops up on all kinds of sites, including sites that aren’t selling anything.

Not sure how this would help - these ads are NOT affiliated with Amazon in any way. The are phishing scams.

Nothing works to get rid of this stupid ad. Clearing cache, blocking pop-ups, preventing cookies, etc....nothing works. Clicking “close” doesn’t work either and hitting the back button on the browser won’t even let you go back to Kohl’s. I had over $300 in my cart. Ended up going to Bed Bath & Beyond to purchase what I needed. Totally *****. I am no longer a Kohl’s customer after this colossal waste of my time.

I’m getting the same thing multiple times a day. I have an iPhone X with the latest updates. Cleared Safari settings and still get the pop up ads. Happens on all the websites I visit. Yahoo, Facebook, Fox, msn.

Glad to hear the blocker solved the problem. This week I noticed that 1Blocker added support for blocking scripts on web sites that can use our devices’ processing power for mining Bitcoin. Such work, they say, will drain battery performance. The release notes from 1Blocker indicate that thousands of sites use such mining scripts.

Personally, I haven’t researched any of this enough to know whether it’s true, but if it is, it stands to reason that the root cause lies in scripts at the web site’s server, and not with iOS or Safari (short of Apple incorporating blocking technology directly their Safari web browser).

I have the same problem with “Congratulations! ...” pop up. I downloaded 1blocker premium today. I have not been able to block the pop up. I suspect that I may not have all of the settings right. Can you tell me which settings I need to turn on to disable this pop up and which ones, if any, that need to disable? I have an iPhone 6s with iOS 10. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Robert,

Thanks for your reply. I have tried everything from whitelisting to URL blocking to identifying page elements. At this point, I’m ready to save all of my phone information outside my iPhone and see how life without it will be. I tried to have a chat session with Apple Support and after being told my wait would be less than 10 minutes, I waited 90 minutes without any response. I am not interested in selling my soul to solve this problem. I either have problems following instructions and/or this is a problem Apple has not been willing to resolve to date. Again, I appreciate your time.

Thanks for your reply. I have still not found a solution to this problem. It could be due to operator error. I have tried whitelisting, URL blocking, using the page elements feature and any other solution I can find to solve this problem. I am not going to try voodoo or selling my soul to solve this. I waited 90 minutes to start a chat session with Apple that was supposed to start 10 minutes after I got in the queue. I think Apple needs to address this with an update. Again, thank you for your time

Sorry for the delay in responding. If you’re still having the issue, can you tell me specifically what steps you took? For me, it was simply a matter of installing 1Blocker and turning on the options I showed earlier in this thread.

Happy to help, though. Let’s start at the beginning, though.

— Robert

Robert,

Thanks for your response.

1. I purchased 1Blocker from the Apple App Store.

2. I couldn’t figure how to block the pop up using 1Blocker after trial and error attempts.

3. I posted my comment on the forum.

4. I tried each recommendation to no avail.

5. I posted my second comment requesting settings.

6. Your response was very clear and I set 1Blocker per your recommendation and double checked my settings. I could not block the pop up.

7. I then tried white listing, element selection and other settings that might solve the problem without success.

8. Reset to your settings with no success.

9. Disabled 1Blocker.

I did a search of the App Store and discovered AdBlock and was going to try it today. I chose it because of the high number of purchasers and a high rating. I haven’t purchased or installed it yet.

I appreciate the time you have spent to help me with this and didn’t expect you to provide more. I will be happy to enable 1Blocker again and recheck my settings.