Amazon winner pop ups on my iPhone

Turning off JavaScript support in the Safari Advanced setting stops the issue. It will also disable some other functionality. I turned mine off then back on after two weeks - haven't seen the pop-up now in 3 months.

I'm doing that - disabling javascript... I don't allow cookies so I don't see how clearing them would help! I got this one today whilst reading the news in the news app and I don't remember being on Safari the earlier time this week but was in an app that did allow ads.. Calm I think. Thanks for the tip.

I would think resetting the advertising identifier could cause it to happen more often. I get them usually once a day on a site, I'm wondering it this is mechanism that stores I already saw the ad and why I don't see it again.

Well I’ve been doing a lot of research and it is something to do with Apple/Google integration and JavaScript. I uninstalled Facebook messenger, Tapatalk and all 3rd party communication applications and I have JavaScript enabled and so far no more issues.

If you have any forum or communication apps delete them but you may need clear your browser cache. It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact issue because iOS is closed source.

My wife was using Tweetbot on her phone and she complained to me about this ad problem. The same Amazon one. For her it was only occurring when she tapped on a link from TheHill.com, a news site. She then told me she had been seeing this every time she went to TheHill.com. She was using the Tweetbot browser to access the link, not Safari. I didn’t know how Tweetbot stored data so I deleted the app from her phone and reinstalled it. That did not work.

I’ve used Tweetbot for years and have accessed TheHill many times and had never seen this issue on either my phone or iPad. Using a Google search led me to these threads. I tried most of the suggestions here, none worked. Then I saw someone reference 1Blocker and realized I’ve been using that for a year or two now. I figured that’s why I have never encountered this. So I downloaded and installed it on my wife’s phone. No more Amazon ad. I would imagine other ad blockers would also work but I’ve used 1Blocker, the paid version, with no issues and highly recommend it. I know my wife will be pleased. She’s asleep now, that’s the only way I could get the phone away from her long enough to do all this.

Just let others know if what I gave you fixed it. My own experience tells me that helped a lot. It will help others too since a lot of other people have the same issue. Clearing the website history cache is what you find online but it is not enough.

Resetting advertising didn’t change anything. None of the suggestions here did for this particular issue. I contacted Tweetbot support and they are aware of the issue stating that you need to contact the website because it’s their advertiser that pushing this through your browser.

Since I’ve never seen this issue and would never have looked for these threads if my wife hadn’t complained, I felt the ad blocker was the way to go. I did clear her history and web site data as an extra measure but the ad blocker took care of it. We’re happy. Oh, she was only seeing it on TheHill.com site. But looking at how far back these threads go and the number of sites reported, she might have started seeing the issue elsewhere.

That’s the problem. You can clear history and website data every hour on the hour. As soon as you go back to that site their advertiser will push that ad through the browser. My wife was experiencing this when accessing a site through Tweetbot‘s browser not Safari. The same thing happened.

You have ave two options, contact the site and complain. Or install an ad blocker. As I mentioned before I’ve had an adblocker installed for several years and had never seen or heard of this problem. Now my wife no longer sees this either. Whether Apple can or will do something to circumvent this I have no idea. But since it’s been complained about for so long I wouldn’t hold my breath. There’s a reason ad blockers are so popular.

Yay! and I found a good article in MacWorld from October 2017 that list their fave adblockers for iPhone and iPad, 1Blocker being one of them. I have AdBlock Plus on my MacBook but never thought of putting it on my phone. Sounds like a plan people! I'm pretty housebound so I use my MacBook Pro more than the iPhone for web browsing but just having it a couple times with that Amazon ad scared me enough to come here. Thank you, papjo.

You’re welcome. And for the web sites that bemoan that ads are how they derive their revenue, well place unobtrusive ads on your site and we’ll disable the ad blocker for your site. But this thing is far beyond acceptable. Since I had never seen it before I thought my wife’s phone had been infected with something.

Thanks so much! Like others, I have 1Blocker on Mac & IPad...why didn’t I have it on phone? I don’t know!! Didn’t see the forest for the trees. Appreciate your help, sure your wife is Very pleased.

I downloaded 1Blocker a couple of days ago for my iPhone SE, had a few problems, purchased the upgrade, played with the settings awhile, cleared my browser/data and haven’t seen an Amazon add since. Everything is working great now. Great app! (at least for me).

There are a few additional settings in the paid version. I did purchase this to keep the developer encouraged to keep up support and development. But I would try playing around with the settings of the basic app first. I’ve never seen this ad either on my phone or iPad. I could post a picture of my settings screen if it would help but I think if you play around with this some you’ll find what works for you.

I was able to get this to stop on my iPad, I was getting the pop up on a certain forum every other click. I reset ad data and it stopped. It’s for sure stopped though, used it for 3 days and still good.

Sombra12 wrote:

It is not just a Safari problem. It also happens to me on Chrome

And it can happen on any device that has a web browser. Not just iPhones, not just Android phones, but Windows computers, Macs, even Linux workstations. When you connect to a website the site gets a lot of information about you; your type of computer, IP address, Browser, etc. The reason you might see this specific page (it's a page, not a popup, but they make it look like a popup) is because the site knows you are using an iPhone, so it displays an iPhone specific ad. If you click a button labeled "close" or anything similar on the page that runs a Javascript program that installs a cookie that lets them display it on any other page. The "close" button really isn't a close function; clicking it is what makes the page more or less permanent. So the first step is never click any button in an ad, no matter what it says it does. To defeat this you must click in the address bar and enter a different address (such as google.com) rather than click the ersatz close button.