Amazon winner pop ups on my iPhone

Oh boy, don’t get ornery on my last post. This reply and one before that I can’t find again yet, appears to answer my last question about if I shouldn’t worry the tracked websites can get into my phone.

1: Is that relevant?

Hard to say. I try the sites people complain about seeing the redirects on with my iPhone with any ad blockers turned off, and there they are. And yet, I'll go to the same site on my Mac (High Sierra, also in Safari with my ad blocker off), and nothing. No ads. At least, not the redirects that are currently plaguing iOS.

ArtStoneNC is quite correct that iOS in particular matters with browsers. Since they are all required to use iOS's underlying WebKit, it really means they're all the same base browser with their own interface.

2: Lastly, do you store passwords on the sites you visit, and credit cards, on your phone?

No. But that's mostly because I use my iPad and iPhone for reference browsing more than anything else. For any actual commerce, I use my Mac. I use my iPhone 6s for the web as little as possible simply because so little of a site fits on the screen. It's just a pain to use most of the time. The iPad at least has a decent amount of working space.

I saw this after I posted my last reply. By the way, I can’t hit “helpful” to any responses. Sorry if that helps your credibility in some way. (You too Kurt)

Points are the goal of some users. It truly doesn't matter to me, and never has. There was no point system of any kind when I joined. I spent the first six months I was a member just reading, reading, reading. I had the first Mac I ever bought new (a G4 tower) and wanted to learn a lot more about the ins and outs of the Mac and its OS than just using them (as I did at work). Then it kind of became habit to stay in order to constantly learn and help others where I think I can.

You can still click Helpful on any post you feel deserves a mark. Only the person who started a topic can mark Solved on anything, and two Helpful's that will give those two posts an immediate gold star and 5 points. But, any post that receives 5 or more Helpful clicks from any users who want to click on the button also gets a star and 5 points. So, you'd still be helping ArtStoneNC on his way to a Helpful star for that post.

I won't touch anything written by Google with a mile long pole.

Not seeing the redirects in Chrome only means you haven't seen them yet. Go back to the same site where you see these often enough and you will. The ad servers rotate out dozens, or hundreds of ads. Which ones you see in a particular visit are unlikely to be the ads you'll see next time. Eventually, Chrome will be hit with the same Amazon redirects.

Hey Kurt,

Ive tried to see if I could message you of some sort to not hijack a topic, but I cannot. I wanted to let you know portions of your replies, had really left me thinking and helped in a lot of ways! Thank you again!

Hi Lawrence,

As I mentioned to Kurt, since I don’t see how I can message a user on here via phone,

I cane back to the original post to say Thank you again for your help and being very diplomatic!

You and Kurt have helped me realize I can come on this community and read accurate advice, from at least two people, so far.

Read being key!

No, Apple Support Communities preserves the identities of its participants. We all appreciate recognition from time to time, and responding in a thread is just fine. I'm glad you've gotten some insight.

Yup. As Lawrence noted, Apple does not do private messaging on these forums. They want all communication out in the open to protect all user’s privacy.

I’m glad you’ve found the information useful. So, thanks for the “thanks”. 🙂

Bull. All phones by all manufacturers have the same issue, which is the Internet, not the device.

By your reasoning, when you're watching TV and them darn commercials come on, it must be the fault of Sony, LG, or whatever brand of TV you have. All to force you to buy a new one that won't show commercials.

And for the 3rd time, nobody is askin apple to fix the internet, im asking them to provide solutions that actually work. Just say you cant fix the internet not hve your customers wasting their time doing stuff that doesnt work. I just hope youre on payroll exhausting all this energy on a message board.

Kurt Lang wrote:

Bull. All phones by all manufacturers have the same issue, which is the Internet, not the device.

By your reasoning, when you're watching TV and them darn commercials come on, it must be the fault of Sony, LG, or whatever brand of TV you have. All to force you to buy a new one that won't show commercials.

Or buy a TiVo; it has the capability to skip ads automatically for many channels.

Ditched cable almost 30 years ago. Bought our first TiVo roughly 10 years ago. It’s great skipping commerials with the newer models. Touch a button, and it jumps right to the point where the show continues.

Ad blockers do not work, as the consequences of installing one are much more disruptive to everything else I do. Trading an annoyance for a bigger annoyance is not a solution.

repetition does not make an invalid opinion more valid.

Wow, that was an incredibly insulting personal attack.

I am retired and earned my living writing and designing software for major companies for over 30 years.

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. More problematic is web sites don't work if Adblock is active without any warning. Disqus comment boards are the first that comes to mind.

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. Chrome now owns a staggering 60% of the global browser market, and Microsoft has fallen to 6% because they stopped listening to their customers and hid behind surrogate 'helpers" whose only skill was to arrogantly deny there was any problem.

"Just use Chrome" is another perfectly valid solution - IF Apple provided the option to let me delete Safari and set Chrome as the default browser for activating links in Mail and other apps.

why should you have to download a 3rd party software?

Already answered back on page 25 of this topic:

Why waste the development time on something that's already been done? Why don't Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer, Opera, etc. have their own ad blocking? Same reason.

can't apple find the best solution and install it standard in their web browser?

I don't think they want to. Partly, it's already been done. Why reinvent the wheel? You also can't bring the wrath of advertisers to your door. Apple's not blocking them. The user is.

This is the same basic strategy TiVo uses. Starting a couple of models back, they introduced ad skipping. Instead of fast forwarding through commercials, a recorded show that is marked Skip has the option to press a button on the controller that will instantly move all the way through a commercial break to the next point in the show.

But, TiVo doesn't do the skipping. Once a show has finished airing, volunteer users mark the skip points. Advertisers can't complain to TiVo about it because they technically aren't doing anything. The ability to mark the skip points is part of the TiVo system, but users are marking the skip points, not them.

This is just a horrible lazy answer. This problem is so more serious than clearing caches. Have you software people been living under a rug? This is a HUGE problem. The amazon pop up bug has ruined the internet