Amazon winner pop ups on my iPhone

adhemrick wrote:

You seem to think that this isn’t apples problem.

If it's Apple's problem, why does it happen on Android phones?

If it's Apple's problem, why does it happen on Microsoft phones?

If it's Apple's problem, why does it happen on Windows browsers?

If it's Apple's problem, why does it happen on Linux browsers?

If it's Apple's problem, why does it happen on Firefox browsers on all smartphones and computers?

If it's Apple's problem, why does it happen on Google Chrome browsers on all smartphones and computers?

And Apple HAS provided a solution; just install one of the several ad blockers in the app store. Most of them are free. You could have installed one in the time it took you to post your misinformed screed.

But Safari on iOS seems to be the only one that consistently gets *completely hijacked* by these ads.

That I agree with. In testing many sites users say they see these ads on, I disable all ad blockers on my various Apple devices. On the iPad or iPhone (and it doesn't really matter which browser you use since they all actually use the web features of iOS to operate), I see the ads and get redirected. In macOS, also in Safari, the same hijacking ads usually don't even appear.

So why is iOS still so vulnerable to these traffic redirects. Sure, I can cure it with a good ad blocker, and I'd have one installed anyway since many sites jam so many ads on a page they can take up to eight times longer to load if the ads are allowed. But after all the time these types of redirects have been around, iOS shouldn't still be this vulnerable.

Yes, if you read all the posts here you would know that is because it is a javascript hijack and has grabbed the page away from you. Originally removing the Safari app from the recently used list, clearing the browser history and cache and resetting the iPhone would remove it and as long as you didn't go to another site that had been impacted it would not reappear. But as several have said the scammers have upped their game and now you may need to install a 3rd party ad blocker that can handle browser hijacks. And they will have to keep up to date in order to keep blocking them.

What would help would be webmasters keeping a better eye on their sites and stopping the malware in the first place.

P.S. All of the above could be gleaned from reading the entire thread.

And your dismissive post was completely rude and dismissive.

Hi so... I had this problem and did all the “turn on airplane mode and delete history and restart the phone” stuff. It didn’t work. The latest website that was bugging out was Dictionary.com . So I went back to the “safari” tab in settings and went to the “advanced” and then “experimental features” tab and turned off “cache API”. So far, this is the only thing that has worked. I’ll let y’all know if it pops back up anyways eventually.

What doesn't work? There are several suggestions in this thread.

If you have tried closing the app, clearing the history/cache, restarting your iPhone and it comes back you are probably going to the same website that gave you this present and getting it again. Repeat the steps again but this time go to the app store and get an ad blocker that says it can handle browser hijacks.

I have been having this pop up for weeks. Today it got really bad and happened every time I opened safari totally disabling the website I was on. I think I have maneged to get rid of it but not sure which part of what I did helped so this is what I did...

First I cleared the search history then

I read that I needed to disable Java when in airplane mode and then turn off the phone. When I went into settings Java was already off so I...

Turned it to airplane mode turned it on and off again and turned the phone off and on again.

I then went into safari, advance, website data and right swiped to delete any website that looked suspicious( the reward one was on there twice).

I was then able to access the sites without the pop up. It’s been 24 hours and so far it seems to have worked. I have now enabled Java again also.

Only fix for me was to get the Google Chrome app to use as my browser. I tried all of the suggestions in this thread to fix the pop ups and nothing worked. It was infuriating, every site I went to it would happen while using Safari. Switched to Chrome - problem solved!

Once you have received one of these ad pages, if you click anywhere on the page (including the CLOSE button) it will install a javascript object that will redisplay the ad page on many sites. These sites are not necessarily infected; they are collateral damage. I've created a user tip on how to get rid of the current Javascript exploit as well as instructions on preventing it in the future: Dealing with Safari popups that won't go away

You're welcome. It's an everlasting arms race; system vendors block existing exploits, and new ones arise. There are several good ad and malware blockers in the app store, and it's almost essential to have one now, just as it is for computer browsers.

Its not Java. see my comment on turning OFF games logged in through facebook. That fixed it for me. Anapp that requested access to your info is still accessing your facebook account. Remove access by turning it off and that should fix...

It has nothing to do with settings on your phone, your browser cache, etc. Its your wifi router. Occurs in my home on every iOS device when using wifi. If I disable wifi on device, the problem goes away. I do have Comcast as my internet provider. I don't think its from them, though. After rebooting my router and retrying, I get the same advertisement, but this time the url is ecenterforaadharcardinchennai.world . So suspect my router has a virus now. This is what I see (with some boxes over parts of my full ip number. Suspect hitting close sends the image that includes the ip number to evil.com?

What I believe to work for me is to do the following:

1. Go to settings->safari->clear history and web data

2. Go to Settings->privacy->advertising->reset advertising identifier

I use 1Blocker but there are other highly rated ones. One is Wipr. That’s not a misspelling, it is Wipr.

As the others said it’s not a virus. My wife only saw it on TheHill.com. The paid version of 1Blocker took care of that. I’ve never seen it since I’ve been using 1Blocker for the last couple years.

The simple, free and very easy solution has been posted at least a dozen times in past four pages or so.

Install an ad blocker.