Amazon winner pop ups on my iPhone

So in turn, this means apple ether acknowledges there is a problem and allows it to happen bc they are making money. Much like YouTubers make money off Adsense from google. Every time an add plays as you watch a video they make x amount. With apple every time I pop up occurs they make x amount or, they acknowledge the problem and have no way to fix it without a heavy monitoring or heavy app bans including some of their own apps such as Apple Music. It has pop up enabled to sell or promote upgrades or new music

Apple has a closed architecture.

Golly. And so does Microsoft, Android, Samsung, etc. Whew! That was such enormously relevant news.

For a browser to get in the App Store, it must use the WebKit engine. APIs must be used only in ways Apple deems acceptable.

And it's Apple's OS. Too bad if you, or other browser vendors don't like it. It's intentional in iOS so other browsers can't readily, intentionally, or accidentally introduce ways to compromise the OS. They don't have to follow those kinds of rules in macOS. You can get Firefox directly from Mozilla. No App Store or its rules involved.

In order to do whitelisting, ad blockers have to be passed the URL. There is your proof.

Whoopee. Some "proof". How does a function that is required in order to determine if the URL is something that should be blocked have a single thing to do with the app intentionally sharing your browsing information with the company who makes the ad blocker?

Let's see if you can answer the actual question.

Apple has the legal and financial clout to pressure ICANN to threaten to revoke the .top Top Level Domain if they continue to host these fraudulent sites.

Where do you come up with this stuff? Not even Apple has that kind of clout. You aware how vast the Internet is, yes? If you shut down one domain, they open a new one the very next day, if they even wait that long.

but the browser is owned and operated by apple/Mac.

SO WHAT!!! That has nothing to do with anything. Have you not read one other post in this topic? It has been noted, repeatedly, that this happens in ALL browsers on ALL devices. Apple cannot control the Internet.

The rest isn't even worth responding to. Seriously, stop visiting and reading conspiracy sites. Or wherever you're getting this complete and utter nonsense from.

General Motors does not control the highway system, but people buy (or don't) buy their cars based on the customer's perception of safety delivered by their product. Right now, Apple is perceived as being deficient in addressing this specific issue.

This will come as a shock(!), but the .top gTLD is hosted in China

Jiangsu Bangning Science & Technology Co.,Ltd.
3th Floor, BangNing Technology Park, 2 YuHua Avenue, Yuhuatai District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province.

China

But trying to shut down a gTLD would be futile. The root problem was ICANN allowing the open ended creation of more TLDs.

This will come as a shock(!), but the .top gTLD is hosted in China

Hahaha! I do realize you said that as tongue-in-cheek. But yes, that doesn't surprise me at all.

But trying to shut down a gTLD would be futile. The root problem was ICANN allowing the open ended creation of more TLDs.

That's for sure! I've never read the reasoning behind that decision, but they may not have been expecting it to be abused like that.

You can't sue over ads, unless they're breaking the law. Such as bait-and-switch, scams, etc. An ad that truthfully represents the product, even if extremely annoying, cannot be subject to a lawsuit. Not from you, anyway. The owner of the site may have a legal right to sue. Especially if the contract they signed stated no adult content ads, ads for pirate, or other illegal file sharing sites, and such ads appear anyway.

These ads are using big companies names in their ads. That is copyright infringement. Which is illegal. And the ad is using a bait and switch method. They state” click here to win a gift card” but when you click it takes you to a different site to sign up for junk. Or complete these tiered objectives to win your prize. They are represented the brand truthfully.

To me it’s seems like the piracy issue that was severe a few years back. Many people were using torrents and Pirate Bay or other sites to illegally download digital content. iTunes among others started cracking down. Fines and lawsuits were issued to offenders yet people continued to do it by changing ip addresses or vpn filters. Eventually they closed the pirate websites( for the most part). With these ads and their domains they will change certainly indefinitely. You could close one every sec and they could start a new one. How could they solve this issue in the same manor? They would have to regulate domain creation and monitor content per domain?

No, it really isn't like that. In the piracy cases you could show that a theft was occurring and they had the assistance of law enforcement agencies around the world. With the Amazon ads you just have an irritant.

The only one who would have any standing in taking legal action would be Amazon.

Instead of a centralized authority who decides what is good and bad, how about giving control to the person using the browser - providing the information to make informed choices for blacklisting and whitelisting? Personally, I would blacklist all servers in Eastern Europe and China by CIDR allocations. Other people would have different opinions and needs.

Whichever one they picked (probably the US) and whomever they could locate and name. But they probably won't because in the scheme of things it isn't that important to them. And your local blacklisting can already be done at a cost but it just adds more chaos to an already chaotic system. Combine it with the end of net neutrality and we can start to see the next phase of the internet subscription sites with speed and all others at a crawl by individuals. Open ad supported sites would become home grown affairs with slow speeds and little to offer.

I share your frustrations. The solutions provided by Apple are totally useless and a waste of time. Again today I had to stop using Safari after having an important transaction interrupted by this problem. It is evident to me that this malware is spreading though many high volume websites, can affect multiple types of Apple devices, evades pop up blockers, hijacks browsers and probably infests iCloud accounts. The potential risks to data security are obvious. Apple needs to get this fixed NOW!

You tell them. By the way how many of the posts in this thread did you read? Maybe you should sell your iPhone and get an android model. Or maybe not: https://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-5/391462-ads-randomly-pop-up-my-p hone.html

P.S. It also affects Chrome, Windows, etc.

While Chrome and Firefox are available on iOS devices, Apple does not allow the author of the browser (Google, Mozilla) to write the entire browser. They must use Apple’s browser engine called WebKit - which limits what the browser can do to only what Apple allows - like syncing Chrome bookmarks to non-iOS devices. Your browser choice cannot be made the default for when you click on links in other places (like email)

Microsoft used to require its customers to use Internet Explorer, until they were sued by the European Union in 2009 and fined close to $1 billion, and threatened by the US Justice Department (Janet Reno) with an anti trust lawsuit to break up Microsoft for abusing its control over its customers by preventing customers from choosing the software they want.

This issue is about much more than some annoying fake pop up ads.

Thank you very much for your feedback. All of it, especially with confirming the browser is not going to matter. I 100% understand the annoyance of being repetive. I started to read faster when I kept reading sue and blame.

I am going to look into Adguard now, since that is the one you use.

The ad that pops up for Amazon only happens on my iPhone, not my MacBook or iPad. I did not read anywhere if this is the case with everyone.

1: Is that relevant?

I’ve had a lot of issue with my MacBook, not ads, and I’ve babied that thing since I bought it, my first Mac, because anytime someone said install something on a PC, it made things worse. (Spyware,malware,virus protection) I am still with the mindset from when I bought my first Mac, that their products do not need any additional - protection, for lack of a more correctly termed word, And with an iPhone, that they absolutely do not need any ‘protection’.

So either I’m outdated or believed Apple because they were Apple, or both.

2: Lastly, As someone who is versed in this, do you store passwords on the sites you visit, and credit cards, on your phone?

I ask because it would appear to my novice self, If these ads occur and someone “has hacked into a website I visit” does that mean they can get into my saved website passwords and such? The ad is annoying but for one second, it’s the privacy and security I wonder about.