Amazon winner pop ups on my iPhone

Finally we can agree! We are all friends here. The only reason we all post here is to find solutions to problems. Hopefully these big brands can sort this kinda stuff out and the ads will move to a less invasive type that are normal. %) hope you have a great afternoon friend. Again my fix is to hit the stop button on the url bar and hit return or back to reload the last page you were on. Better than having to restart your browser or install an app or change settings like java to fix it

It's like playing whack-a-mole, but with an infinite number of moles. The problem can't be solved by blocking domains or TLDs.

Exactly. Such as, when Apple gets one of those scam web sites shut down (the kind that have an Apple logo on it claiming your Mac is infected and to call some bogus phone number), they simply create a new one.

I agree with you that Apple cannot fix the internet and this had nothing to do with Amazon (for those who wanted to sue them they have no basis). However, I do think Apple can do something about safari. People shouldn't have to install an popup blocker app to use safari. That's just ludicrous. Unfortunately, I do not know exactly how this malicious popup got to do what it does so I cannot even begin to make a suggestion to Apple. I believe Lawrence Finch was on the right track regarding to legitimate sites using malicious ads that cause this. But I think there is more to that. Again I don't have anything to back up that claim. All I know is, I did all the steps Lawrence listed plus I disabled javascript during the whole process. I come back to cnn and msn later and those ads popped up after some time, though not right away. So either cnn or msn or both are running malicious ads or those sites were actually clean and there is some malicious script left that was not deleted by the deletion process and still lives on my iPhone.

You can install Chrome, Firefox, and other third party browsers if you wish, but it won't change anything. Ads come from the sites you visit, not the browser. You'll see them no matter which browser you're using.

Ad blockers WORK. If you bother to read the thread you will find a lot of information about them. But, as you would rather complain than to fix the problem, go right ahead. The rest of us will ignore you.

My apologies. I had fully intended to remove that sentence. You were completely correct about iOS only allowing WebKit to be used as the basis for all browsers. Also about the .top gTLD being hosted in China. Both of which I agreed with.

I have had Adblock installed since Apple added 3rd party content filters. But because many sites overtly block their content, it is almost always turned off.

That doesn't make sense to me. "Many sites" overtly block whose content? They sure wouldn't block their own.

More problematic is web sites don't work if Adblock is active without any warning.

What do you mean "don't work"? I have yet to visit any site that doesn't work. It's not unusual for a site to complain that you have an ad blocker running, and pretty please turn it off. But that's not the same as "doesn't work". They're just trying to force their control on your computer. No way. You can almost always find the same content some where else. Or, simply click the AdGuard icon at the top of the browser to disable it for the moment so the site will load. Often, you can enter the site with it off, then immediately turn it back on. The site is initially happy it didn't see an ad blocker, but then doesn't pay attention to the fact you've turned it back on.

I have already proposed that Safari have the same solution that is implemented in Chrome, which is to not allow javascript to disable the Back action.

Apple has already done that. If you get stuck in one of the idiotic, "Your computer is infected with xxx viruses!!! Call this scam number now!!!" sites, you can click the back button to get out. A box will pop up asking if you really want to leave the page. These JavaScript loops can no longer lock you into the site. As with the way Apple normally does things with Safari, you do need to be running an up-to-date version of Safari. Which means you must be (at this point) running at least El Capitan.

"Just use Chrome" is another perfectly valid solution.

No way in any universe will I use Chrome, or any other app from Google. Unless, that is, you don't mind Google collecting marketing data on your computer and web usage the entire time your computer is on. It does this whether Chrome, Google Earth or its other apps are running or not.

There's nothing stopping you from setting Chrome, Firefox or other third party browser as the default. Well, not in macOS. It is a nuisance you can't do that in iOS, and doesn't make sense why such a simple, optional choice hasn't been added.

This happens to me occasionally with random sites but happens pretty much every single time I go to a recipe site, whether it be "All Recipes" or a Food Network link. It happened today, so I went through, deleted the history as I always have to, and then read through this entire thread to where someone claimed that it was from using Safari, so I went to the App Store, downloaded Chrome, Googled a recipe and BAM! Amazon Instant Winner. First place I ever visited via Chrome and there was that stupid notification. Deleted Chrome as fast as I installed it. -_- I will never buy another iPhone again; between having to buy a dozen different cables and cords to do ANYTHING, a subpar camera and now THIS? Done.

I can feel your frustration as I work my way down this thread.

I can tell you that I spent a lot of time looking for the source of the redirect from an infected WordPress page to the actual malicious (not a pop-up) site. It was only after I found articles about infected JavaScript that this suddenly made sense.

Reading through here, it seems that some folks (aside from being dense) have made poor choices of which web ste to visit, or have been caught out by a sneaky advertisement, but I marvel at how the bogus “redirect” follows them from site to site - makes me think that more than a cookie got planted on their device.

And got to agree - never try to close a suspect page or popup - always close the page, or force-close the browser.

If you’e curious about my adventures from the website end of things, see these:

http://granitegrok.com/blog/2018/04/were-you-taken-off-to-tokelau-welcome-back-w eve-fixed-the-redirect

http://granitegrok.com/blog/2018/06/whats-between-your-pc-and-a-virus-infested-t ropical-paradise

(The bad scripts we got used malware servers in .tk)

I did read about using airplane mode while cleaning up. There are a lot of good suggestions here.

I never clicked on the bad page, but when our blog got infected with a bad script, every platform I had would see the “redirect.” Equally, because I hadn’t allowed the bad page to plant anything, after we cleaned up the web page, none of my devices got redirected.

The reason I ended up here was several instances of the Amazon popup when visiting “American Thinker.” My reading has convinced me it‘s the same kind of infestation we had to deal with.

Your posts were the constant thread of (slightly grouchy - for a reason) sanity running through this topic.

Thanks

Well, I set trap for the particular “redirect” domain that seemed to be affecting American Thinker, and sure enough, the exact same characteristics I expected - just leaving the web page open for an hour or two will eventually cause the JavaScript to whisk your browser off to perdition. Open DNS is my friend - I block pesky domains from advertising, etc:

Now to persuade them they have a problem. Thanks again for the useful information here

If you have truly tried EVERYTHING then there is no hope, you will have to live with it forever. On the off chance that EVERYTHING does not include "everything" see if this helps: Dealing with Safari popups that won't go away

Dimintherf wrote:

HI.Unfortunately Apple doesn't have a fix (I've learned). This is also happening on Chrome with my Iphone 8S

It isn't within Apple's ability or responsibility to fix the Internet, which is where the root of the problem lies.

However:

• The fixes available for Apple devices are contained in the thread you didn't bother to read.
• Google doesn't have a fix for Android devices either. But there are fixes.
• Google doesn't have a fix for ChromeBooks. But there are fixes.
• Microsoft doesn't have a fix for Windows browsers. But there are fixes.
• The Linux community doesn't have a fix for workstation Linux. But there are fixes.

Likewise for Opera, Firefox, Chrome, MSIE or any other browser on any platform.

What browser you're using has absolutely nothing to do with seeing, or not seeing ads. The ads come from the site you visit. If it has ads or popups, you'll get them in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and any other browser you can think of.

Neither Apple, or any other company can control the entirety of the Internet. I truly don't understand why people think they can, or can somehow pull off the magic trick of the ages.

Blaming Apple for the ads is like blaming network/cable TV, newspapers, magazines and any other source of ads for not doing something to stop them. They, and web sites that push ads all do it for the same reason. To generate revenue.

Happens on Chrome as well as Safari. I’m using DuckDuckGo now and so far so good. But Apple needs to do something about this. It’s been a problem for months now.

Chrome is a web browser. Safari is a web browser. DuckDuckGo is not a web browser, it is a search engine. And Chrome and Safari are not search engines, either.

But it's apparent that you haven't read any of this thread, not even posts on this page of it.