Amazon winner pop ups on my iPhone

You could just enable a private browsing page in Safari as well. And/or install an ad/content blocker which is what Firefox focus is. Either way you’re going to have install something to get around the problem. So the solution is the same regardless of which app you use.

Would be nice if Safari team could get their security in place to solve this…

Actually, it's already there.

In macOS, you can open a private browsing window from the File menu, or Command+Shift+N.

In Safari in iOS, tap and hold the new browser window icon. A sheet will appear where you can select "New Private Tab".

I haven't test that yet to see if it will stop redirects or unwanted popups. Worth a try I would think.

Either way Kurt, Firefox Focus app or ad blocker app has to be installed. The private browsing mode would be fairly tedious to use on every site. Not sure why there’s resistance to using one of these apps. You and I, as well as so many others, do and have pretty well eliminated the problem.

According to the support article - “Private Browsing protects your private information and blocks some websites from tracking your search behavior. Safari won't remember the pages you visit, your search history, or your AutoFill information.”

i dont know if that would prevent the redirects that are occurring but seems as if it should. I believe this would block any cookies from the site you’re on.

Private browsing in iOS Safari does not prevent this. Clearing website data did nothing for me. Also, links from outside of Safari do not open in private tabs, there’s no setting to do such a thing, and as mentioned it would be tedious to the point that I’d switch to Android if I had to copy urls over to private windows.

Safari, both mobile and desktop, used to be premier browsers. Whoever took over those teams in the last few years have driven these browsers into the ground and resisted several pushes on new and better web standards. Even MS Edge is now a far superior browser to Safari on desktop. This is just another symptom of Safari’s slow journey into mediocrity.

Actually if that were the case it would be an example of the internets slow journey into mediocrity, or javascript slow journey into mediocrity since these occur on Linux, Windows, Android, etc. I haven't had one in a while and I'm not running an adblocker, I don't have private browsing on and I do have javascript on.

Sorry, I’m use to more reliable software produced by google and Microsof. This is my 3rd iPad and I’m regretting going back to it but my experience with 1 & 2 was so great that I thought I would try this new model. I should have bought a tab or surface. I was never a victim of this pop up/redirected webpage before

What could possibly make you believe you won't see ads or redirects on a different brand of tablet? You're using the same Internet, on the same web sites you visit with your iPad.

For the umpteenth time in this topic, install an ad blocker. They're free and work very well.

Kurt I totally agree with you, but have no experience with Android or Microsoft devices. Do they experience the issue? As for the poster, if his experience with the iPads was so great then just install a blocker and continue to love them. I really don't understand what's so difficult about this. I use an ad blocker on my laptop and I'm sure many Windows users do as well, so what's up? Is this some kind of religious belief conflict?

Is this some kind of religious belief conflict?

Basically, it's the fanboi thing.

The wife and I started out with purchasing an IBM XT clone running DOS 3.1. I then built many of my own PCs over the years and switched to Macs when I started my own prepress business. That because almost that entire industry is built around Macs. Or at least, was. More shops are becoming Windows based doing the same work, but it's still heavily Mac dominated. It was very important at the time to be on Macs since Type 1 PostScript fonts were (and still aren't) transferable between Macs and PCs. You can purchase the supposedly exact same T1 PS font from Adobe, Linotype, etc. for each platform. But, even from the same vendor, type reflow isn't quite the same. So, you have to carry a project through from start to finish the way it was sent from the client. And that generally meant, Mac.

All of that boils down to, I have no real allegiance. I've used both platforms for many years, and am comfortable with either. I prefer Macs, but that doesn't mean I won't use Windows.

My other theory (notice it's almost always new users), is that they think they're making some sort of threat to Apple employees that they're going to leave and get the "enemy's" product. Well, everyone here (as I believe you already know) are other users. The person wants to ditch their Apple device? Go ahead. It's their money to spend as they wish. I have no incentive to try and talk them out of it. But the way they state their intentions leads you to think you'll lavish them with a gift or something to keep them in the fold.

I have a work iPhone 7, and an older personal iPhone 5 (I know, I know) and both are set to the tightest privacy and ad blocker status possible. Both have had history cleared several times, both rebooted many times, and both continue to pick up this pop up which I guess we can now call a virus. This was a proble in January, and it continues to be a problem in March. Apple? What is going on with your software?

NOTHING is going on with Apple software. Bad guys have found a way around Apple's pop-up blocking. The do it using a web page redirect and displaying a page that looks like a pop-up, but actually is not; it's just a web page. If you tap on the page it runs a Javascript object that installs it in your browser so it comes up on many other sites. But it isn't just Apple; it also happens on Android phones, Chromebooks, Windows and Macs. If you actually read the thread you posted to you would know this, and also learn how to fix it. Start with the Apple Recommended post on the top of every page.

Yes, as Lawrence has said many, many, many, many times, please read the thread. There is no virus. The pop up blocking setting on your device won’t stop this because, again, it’s not a pop up. Your browser is being redirected to another site with that ad.

Especially read the posts by Lawrence and Kurt, and maybe a few of mine. You’ll be able to sort this out very quickly. As I have said, many, many times, I’ve used an ad blocker for years and have never seen this issue on any of my devices.

Private mode should work but is not a long term solution. You’d wind up having to turn this on and back off multiple times. When you finally visit one of the sites with this ad problem you’ll start the issue again. I also do not use the clear history function in Safari because that wipes everything out requiring you to log back into all your vital services and sites, and get your authorization codes sent again on all iCloud and other secure services.

On macOS Safari you can choose to clear just history items but not cookies and web site data. There is no equivalent option in iOS Safari. I have done it on my phone or iPad in the past but it’s way too tedious to do more than once or twice. Doing that propagates through all devices on that iCloud account including your computer so you’ll be logging in on everything over and over again for a while.

An ad blocker is really the simplest way of dealing with this specific issue.

both are set to the tightest privacy and ad blocker status possible.

It doesn't matter how many of Safari's and other settings you turn on or off on your iPad or iPhone.

Since the concept of pop up blocking appeared years ago, it has been a continuous game between the a-holes that want to shove ads in your face, and those who want to stop these intrusions (Apple, Microsoft, Android, Samsung, etc.). The latter find a way to block the current ways advertisers have found to get around the blocks, and the advertisers figure out how to get around the new block. Lather, rinse, repeat.

However, as has been explained by Lawrence numerous times, the pop blocker doesn't work because the Amazon/Comcast/whatever ads aren't popups at all. Popups always appear on the same site you are currently on. These are redirects to a completely different site that is designed to look like a popup.

There currently are no settings in any device by any developer/manufacturer that can stop all such intrusions. Why, I don't know. The fact that ad blockers succeed in doing it means Apple, Microsoft, Android, Samsung, etc. also could by adding similar functions, but for reasons unknown, haven't. That could simply be a matter of "Why reinvent the wheel?". Meaning, why spend the time writing the code for an ad blocker when it's already been done, been done well by others, and are readily available in the App Store?