Amazon winner pop ups on my iPhone

First and foremost, it has to be turned on. Installed isn’t the same as enabled. After installing AdGuard from the App Store, go to Settings > Safari > Content Blockers and turn AdGuard on (slide the switch to green).

Then open the app and tap Filters. The ones I have on are English, Spyware, social media and Annoyances. The last one is off by default. Not sure why since it blocks a lot of junk. I also have the Mobile Ads and Safari filters on. And finally, I have EasyList checked. This simply means the makers of AdGuard have compiled a list of known sites and ad servers that host a lot of garbage.

You’ll notice there’s a lot of other filters you can enable. Most related to other languages. I just noticed “I don’t care about cookies”. Haven’t tried that one yet. I occasionally go to sites where it says I have cookies blocked when I know for a fact I don’t. Would be nice if it blocked those dumb, and incorrect messages.

These drove me CRAZY. I found a solution recently. Go to settings tap general, then go to restrictions, turn them on (it’s gonna ask for your code), then go to websites. Click “limit adult content” and then under “never allow” put in this link (or copy and paste the link of the pop up when it pops up. Problem solved.
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Found these instructions below that worked for my friend with his iPhone 6: How to get rid of the spree discount pop up on my iPhone 8 from RenoDave.

My friend was getting an immediate "Congrats; Lucky User; Gift Card" popup on his own radio station website. He had to do the process three times to clear the annoying popups for good.

Spree refers to the site the original poster, RenoDave, was getting popups from. Input whatever's bugging you.

"First, close the window that has been hijacked and quit the Safari app. Then, go to Settings>Safari>Advanced>Website Data. Type "spree" in the search box and you should see something like "spreediscount.com." Delete that by swiping to the left or select edit and then select the red box with the minus sign. Then, restart your iOS device (I was having this problem on an iPad). After your device restarts don't open Safari to see if the problem has been cured just yet. Before you do that, repeat the above steps and see if anything comes up when you do the "spree" search. If it comes up again, delete it again and restart your device again. I had to do this three times before it stopped showing up. Each time the data amount got smaller. Finally, the search revealed nothing related to spreediscount. Success! I'm now on they same eBay webpage that was being hijacked and it all looks good."

Good luck!

Depends on what you're using Safari on. I was referencing macOS.

For whatever reason, Safari in iOS is more susceptible to these redirect ads. But installing an ad blocker is all you need to do to fix it. There are several free ones in the App Store. I use Ka-Block on my Mac, and AdGuard on my iPhone and iPad. Both are the free versions. No more ads (mostly), and none of these invasive redirects.

Even if you already did install an ad blocker, you still need to clear the data after doing so. The ad has already become part of your browser cache. The blocker prevents it from being saved to your device again, or working.

I tried everything suggested here about clearing history. Nothing had worked. I uninstalled Facebook for a while because I was tired of it. I then reinstalled the Facebook app and Immediately started getting these pop ups again. Uninstalled Facebook again and I haven’t got a pop up since. Facebook app seems to be the root of my problem.

The suggestion I would give is the same one I've mentioned many times in this topic.

Install an ad blocker.

It's the most effective choice at this time. I use the free versions available through the App Store. Ka-block on my Mac, and AdGuard on my iPad and iPhone.

Even after installing an ad blocker, you do still need to clear your web history one more time since the ads are already in your browser cache. You also need to turn the ad blocker on. Just installing one doesn't make it active. Go to Settings > Safari > Content Blockers and enable the item you installed.

I did the same thing numerous times but it didn't work. A fresh install of iOS didn't work.

What finally worked was deleting my safari data and then turning off iCloud sync for safari (it will ask you to keep data or delete). Once I deleted that from iCloud everything is back to normal.

Forbes in particular has served up malware in its ads several times. Which is why I don't go to the site at all, although it isn't the source for this one. But the whole scenario is you go to an infected site and a cookie gets set. I've forgotten the full site name, but it began with 99 when I saw the popup. However, you will see it in the Safari address bar. As that ad provider has a presence on many other sites the cookie will be recognized on those other sites. So you need to find the first site that you saw the popup on and delete its cookies, and the ad providers site. Or just delete all cookies in Settings/Safari-Advanced.

The other important thing to do is to NOT click a "close" button in the popup as that executes Javascript code (which it isn't really a popup, it is a web page that looks like one), but instead go to the address bar and overwrite the address with something harmless like google.com. Then close the page and kill Safari.

Unfortunately it’s not “technically” a popup. It’s an “alert” which doesn’t get picked up by popup blockers because it actually pauses the browser.

It is likely a piece of JavaScript that is firing in the background of an ad that is following you around the internet.

For this reason, clearing your cache and cookies is really your best bet because it renders you “anonymous” to the script.

I find that these show up relatively soon after I log in to Amazon from my mobile browser to rent movies which mounts several cookies and kicks off some retargeting logic to serve me ads as I browse the web. When I do this, I make sure to clear my cookies to prevent unwanted alerts until the malicious script is weeded out for good.

Hope this helps!

Apple does need to get on this. It's a vulnerability!

No, it isn't. Ads and spam are a fact of life if you are connected to the Internet in any way. Apple has no control over every single site (literally, billions).

I use the free AdGuard on my iPhone. It works very well. Make sure to turn on the Annoyance option in the app, which is off by default. Why I'm not sure, since that setting is (in part) for blocking popups.

There is another method of dealing with this posted by someone else in this thread or another one I was reading. Of course the simplest way is to install an ad blocker as so many of us have recommended. And then BOOM no more ad. But if ad blockers are against your religious beliefs you could try this, I have not had to do it so I can’t vouch for how effective it is.

When you are redirected to the problem ad/site try to find the actual url address. You are being redirected, it’s not an actual pop up. Now go to the Restrictions setting under General. Enable Restrictions. Scroll down to Allowed Content. Under that - Websites. On the next screen tap on Limit Adult Content. Then below you will see Never Allow. Tap on that and add the website address that you got for the redirected site. This may work.

Me, I’d just use an ad blocker and be done with this. But I’m the lazy type

I’ve had 1Blocker for a couple of years and have never seen these redirected ads. As soon as I installed it on my wife’s phone there were no more of these. So it does work. We do have the paid version which has additional features so that may be why it works for us. Or you’re seeing some other type of ad.

When I installed 1Blocker on my wife’s phone I went back to the site that she had the issue with. The redirected ad did not occur. But I did clear her Safari of everything as an extra measure. That’s probably a good step to take in any event

Experiment with the ad blockers. I use the paid version of 1Blocker which has additional settings. You might need to get such a version. I can verify that once I installed it on my wife’s phone she immediately stopped having the problem. And I’ve never seen this on my devices using that blocker.

I haven’t had a reoccurrence since turning off javascripting 6 weeks ago. I turned it off for just a few hours. What seems to do the job permanently is downloading an adblocker. The one that seems to be most successful is 1Blocker. Some of said that the free version is not stopping it but others say the paid version does.