Amazon winner pop ups on my iPhone

OK I’ll try that. I had called Apple this morning and they told me to go to Safari—>advanced—>website data—>clear all. She said cookies are attached there. I also reset my ad data! So thanks....I will see if that works. Sometimes it takes several weeks before the pop up starts appearing again. I did notice on my iPad that once I cleared the website data...my iPad seems to load web pages faster.

No patch coming but you’re welcome to wait. Until then those of us with installed ad blockers aren’t having the problem. The other approach you can use is to contact the offending site, complain, and complain some more. It is their site and allowed advertisers that are the problems. Apple at some point may be able to offer some setting but their settings are already quite extensive and don’t affect this problem.

You can can also register your phone number on the do not call list but you’ll still get a lot of spam calls. Thus the popularity of call blockers. While not perfect they’ve at least made my experience far better. My point is, you can wait and hope, or do something that most of us have found works.

papjo wrote:

No patch coming but you’re welcome to wait. Until then those of us with installed ad blockers aren’t having the problem. The other approach you can use is to contact the offending site, complain, and complain some more. It is their site and allowed advertisers that are the problems. Apple at some point may be able to offer some setting but their settings are already quite extensive and don’t affect this problem.

The problem is that many users think of malware blocking as something that you do once and never have to deal with again. As with many types of evil, there is a constant arms race between offense and defense. It has been ever thus; 1,000 years ago you would develop better armor, and your opponents would develop better weapons to defeat that armor. Then guns made armor useless. So tanks were one advance. Then anti-tank weapons were developed. And so it goes. As with military advances, cybersecurity is an electronic arms race. That's why antivirus products (and now ad blockers and telephone spam blockers) get weekly updates. The popups we're discussing are just another escalation of the arms race. There will be blockers developed against them, and the "bad guys" (really just people out to make a living) will find another way around them. The only way to stop it permanently is to turn off your phone.

The instructions for clearing history and cookies together with resetting the ad identifier is not a permanent fix. It will, however, address it for the time you are getting the pop-up. If you want a more permanent fix is to turn off javascript but you probably do not want that.

“The only way to stop it permanently is to turn off your phone.‘

Now that’s a proven, sure fire solution!😁 But you’re right eventually the ad makers will circumvent current settings. That’s one of the reasons I used the paid version of my ad blocker. Hopefully it’s woth their while to keep up the “arms” race.

sj177p wrote:

The instructions for clearing history and cookies together with resetting the ad identifier is not a permanent fix. It will, however, address it for the time you are getting the pop-up. If you want a more permanent fix is to turn off javascript but you probably do not want that.

No, you are correct. But next time it comes up try not clicking the "close" button on the ad.

That is correct Lawrence. Do not trust the page that pops up. I just close the entire tab - go through the cycle of clearing history and resetting the ad id. That should take care of it until some data gets into Safari once more that triggers it.

I had tried that with my wife’s phone but as soon as she went back to the problem site, for her it was TheHill.com, the same thing happened. So the real solution is to avoid those sites. But if there are multiple ones that you want to use, then you have no choice. For her it was only that one site and the ad blocker took care of it.

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.

It’s not a virus it is injected advertising. The only thing that will stop it is if you stop going to those sites (I know pretty dumb) or download an Ad blocker. Most of the free versions will not work from what I have tested but 1blocker premium seems to work for a lot of people.

Not pressing “close“returns the notIfication. Did what you said, restarted both iPhone and iPad. Gift card notification and circumspect website appeared at the first website I opened after clearing history.

joiseyg wrote:

Apple needs to step it up and resolve this! Gone on for years! We pay $$$ and this should no longer be happening! 😡

What part of THERE IS NOTHING THAT APPLE CAN DO don't you understand? It isn't just Apple. It happens on Android. It happens on Macs. It happens on Ubuntu and other Linux desktops. It happens on Windows. It happens with Firefox, Chrome, MSIE, Safari, Opera, and every other browser and computer in the world.

This doesn’t fix the issue. The first time I tried it in a customer phone, his problem was very intermittent. He called me an hour later. Still a problem. I tried it one more time and reset his SE with the power button and home button. Didn’t work. Two days later and the issue is constant. Gonna try turning off JavaScript today

You can cripple the phone, that’s one “solution“, or try one of the ad blocker apps that do work and will essentially cure your problem. That seems like a no brainer to me. And I continue to say that because until my wife complained I had never seen or heard of this problem. But I’ve used ad blockers for years.

Thank you for your perseverance. As you are learning, some people would rather complain than take action to resolve an issue. Or as Hamlet said, "...take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them." Although I don't recommend Hamlet's specific solution.