Amazon winner pop ups on my iPhone

WHY ARE NOT YOU REPLY?

You know LET ME just stop replying because I

am yelling to much

Try reading more than the first page of this topic. The marked post worked well - when it was made. Much has changed since then, making it mostly obsolete.

That was the suggestion from Apple and it worked

Did you try Lawrence’s suggestion? I followed both his and FatZero’s suggestion. I turned the java scripting back on after a couple of days. I have not had the problem since, and it has been 4 weeks.

The way I fixed it on my phone is I went to Safari and I deleted all book marks first. Then delete all favorites. Remove anything from your reading list and delete your history in Safari first, after doing that then go to settings/safari and clear all history and web site data.

As I have posted several times, it has nothing to do with the browser you are using, and nothing to do with the device (Mac, Windows, iOS, Android). It is an unscrupulous advertiser who has found a way to make you think it's a popup when it's not, and has hoodwinked sites into displaying it. It's not just wonky sites, also; some otherwise respectable sites have been tricked. Sites don't choose their advertisers; they subscribe to advertising placement agencies. And these agencies will take money from anyone who wants to place an ad. And most of them don't screen the ads. Even Google has been caught occasionally, but less frequently than some others. If the ad was "served" by Google and you complain to them they will remove it. Google-placed ads have a "report" button under them.

I was able to replicate on weather.com using iPhone 8, clean install and no cookies or previous data loaded.

It's not the site though, basically the ads on the site are likely being hijacked to deliver the screen with the spam garbage that basically ends your ability to browse and having to do the usual close safari, delete data blah blah. There are articles going back as far as 2015 on it, but recently it seems rampant on sites again.,

I have found the various ad blockers the best option, as I can't see how Apple could fix this. The best course of action once you clean your phone and get a decent blocker installed is to report the issue to the website concerned (I use twitter to make it public) as they can then work with their advertising network to get their issues cleaned up.

Ah! That may be the complete solution, Lawrence. If the cookie has already been created, the site can still read that to access the ad server, despite having an ad blocker installed. So, this may be how to fix it.

1) Install an ad blocker.

2) Close Safari.

3) Clear all web site data.

Now try the sites. With the ads blocked, the ad cookie (hopefully) then cannot be created.

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?

That I know of, Facebook is its own thing. They place ads in the Newsfeed, in the right hand column, and other places. I don't know if there are any ad blockers that work in Facebook.

From what I see, Friendly for Facebook doesn't have anything to do with ad blocking. Rather, it allows you to access all of your social media sites from within one app.

With Friendly, you only need one app for all your Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and Twitter needs.

Oh, I finally see it when I expand the description. They want you to pay $1.99 for AdBlock. Well, you can do that without installing Friendly for Facebook at all. Or, don't pay anything and use the free AdBlock Plus, which I have on my Mac.

AdBlock Plus used to be found on Apple's own Safari Extensions page. I see they have the Mac version of AdGuard there now. That's the free one I have on my iPhone. I think I'll disable AdBlock Plus and give AdGuard a try.

First, net nannies have no effect on me Second, my caps were in response to your caps ORDERING someone to do something. Lastly, you obviously did not read the entire thread or even the last couple of pages or you would know that (1) some people have already talked to Apple, (2) that it is happening on all devices—iOS and Android—, (3) that people have contacted some of the affected websites who then cleaned it from their website, and, lastly, there are at least 20 posts saying that the solution that works the best is to install and ad blocker app (I believe 3 are recommended). I have installed 1Blocker but have not enabled it because the suggested solution of temporarily turning off javascript (turned it off for just a coupl of hours) has eliminated the problem for me. I have not experienced the ad for over 6 weeks now. If it comes back, I will enable the ad blocker. I believe someone also said that once you install and enable the ad blocker, clear your history and then you should be good to go.

Even though turning off JavaScript is not a long term solution the fact that doing it temporarily worked for you is an example of an easy and simple possible fix. Those who have been ranting about Apple would be better served at least trying this. You mentioned a couple of hours, that certainly is not that onerous to try.

I have never done that, but I’ve had an ad blocker installed and enabled for years and have not ever run into the issue. However if I had no ad blocker in place I would certainly try this. But several sites I use have very distracting and obnoxious ads. So I would still resort to a blocker eventually. Sites do load faster in almost every instance so there are additional benefits. When they interfere with the proper functioning of a site it’s quite simple to reload the site with them disabled.

And no phone manufacturer is going to include an ad blocker with the OS nor recommend one. Apple created a storm from advertisers howling about Safari’s default blocking of 3rd party cookies in iOS 11. They’ve probably done more to circumvent these issues than anyone. These ranters would be better served by directing their anger at the sites that are creating the problem in the first place. This has gotten results on some of them apparently.

Lawrence, I believe it’s not about hi-jacked sites. I use safari to browse cnn, msn, yahoo,...etc. These are legitimate sites. Yet at random I’ll be directed to these “Congratulations Amazon users” popup. I’ve blocked some sites, but there are hundreds. For example, cardcase.top, gifthorsenashville.top, giftofprophecy.top, rewardzone.top, g4n2.pw. As you can see, there are unlimited combination. I wish there is a way to block *.pw and *.top as these criminals seemed to be registering domains with .pw and .top.

I’ve read many explanations. Some said there is a malicious app redirecting to those sites. Another blame a deeper problem with msn and cnn ads. I have no solutions. I followed your direction and obviously it didn’t make the problem go away.

Good questions. If you tapped anywhere on the "pop-up" you ran a Javascript object that placed a bunch of cookies that the ad can use to display on other sites. That's where the advice to turn off Javascript for a few hours comes from, and why you should clear website data. There's a bug in Safari that clearing website data doesn't always remove all cookies. So go to Settings/Safari, scroll to the bottom and tap Advanced, then Website Data, then Show All, and delete any remaining cookies that look suspicious. But the other reason your wife doesn't see them is because ads rotate; the same ad will not necessarily show on the site again for a while. And sometimes the site webmaster will ban the ad or the delivery service. Also, when you go to a site the site learns a lot about you; your IP address, browser type, computer type and some other information. They may only want to display the ad on certain devices.