Amazon winner pop ups on my iPhone

Well, there's currently only 27 pages (though it likely splits into more on an iPhone).

Anyway, the best and easy solution has only been mentioned at least a dozen times.

Install an ad blocker.

Nothing worked for me until I downloaded a content blocker app (norton for me but others would likely work as well). Problem went away once I did that.

The secret to clearing it is to disconnect from the Internet while cleaning it up, so the page can't reload. Here's a user tip I wrote about it: Dealing with Safari popups that won't go away

Or just download an ad blocker (turn it on in settings), clean out your cache, and you are good to go.

You will need to install and ad blocker from the app store that can stop javascript hijacks.

Others in this thread have suggested this. I installed Norton Ad Blocker and have had NO AMAZON POPUPS ever since. It's also nice not to have all the other ad popups blocked as well.

What has worked for me is FatZero’s advice—disable java scripting for a short period of time. I did not get the pop up again for approximately four weeks After doing this. When I did get it again, I immediately disabled Java scriptIng, left it disabled for just a couple of hours and then enabled it again. That was about two weeks ago. I have not had another pop up. I agree with another poster that it more likely that the websites are infected and that there is nothing Apple can do, but it would be nice if Apple would weigh in on the issue.

Turning off JavaScript support is the ONLY way to prevent the issue. This setting is found under the Advanced Safari settings. Turning it off will cause certain things to stop working so it's a trade off.

Again the ONLY way to stop it is to turn off JavaScript support.

I did this and haven't seen another popup.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

I see it if I go to the site in Safari (or Firefox) on iOS (iPhone and iPad). I do not see it on any of the 3 Macs in the house. I just deleted the cookies set by each of the 4 times I tested (I noted the URLs of the "popup" page), and it has not repeated.