Amazon winner pop ups on my iPhone

After reading several posts decided to contact the website that I was have the pop up to report inappropriate ad. I emailed the URL and told them the ads were attaching to their website. That was this morning. I have not received a response but when I went the website that was affected the pop up has stopped. Looks like a website problem not and Apple problem. I have an iPad not a phone but thought i would post to this community as the problem is similar.

Yeah, Really annoying! If you go back a few pages ( can’t believe 18 pages) you’ll

see the only thing that helps is an ad blocker. Try a free one first if you’d like. 1Blocker seems to work well. Good luck.

Kurt mentioned AdGuard, I use 1Blocker. Either should serve you well

Yes, I've heard 1Blocker also works very well. I've just never tried that one. I happened to pick AdGuard first. It did everything I wanted it to do and it didn't slow the browser down. So, there's no reason for me to try a different app at this time.

Go ahead and do that. Then what are you going to do when it happens on your Android sincemthe same issue is appearing on those? Why don’t you take the time to read this thread for the solutions to the issue: (1) download a. Ad blocker app or (2) temporarily disable JavaScript. I disabled JavaScript temporarily (a couple of hours) and have to had a reoccurrence of this issue since and it been almost 6 weeks. Nor did temprarily disabling JavaScript have any effect on any websites I visited during the time I had it disabled. Easiest and most convenient solon is to download an ad blocker as advised by several people on this thread.

OK, here's the problem. If you clicked anywhere in the pop-up the first time it appeared that ran a JavaScript object that essentially linked the malware to your browser so any site that you open after that will display it. CNN, Fox, etc, are not really at fault here. You need to stop the process in its tracks. To do that put the phone in Airplane mode, open Safari and close all open tabs, then go to Settings/Safari and clear your history and website data. Sometimes it helps to turn off JavaScript (temporarily). Turn off Airplane mode and go to some "respectable" sites. Assuming it's OK, turn Javascript back on and try again. This will probably fix it. If it doesn't there are further steps, but usually they are not necessary. Before you go back to the site where it first appeared install a good ad blocker.

It's been said before in this thread, but Apple's pop-up blocker actually works, but these ads are not really pop-ups. They are redirected web pages that are designed to look like pop-ups, to get around Apple's pop-up blocker.

You could just enable a private browsing page in Safari as well. And/or install an ad/content blocker which is what Firefox focus is. Either way you’re going to have install something to get around the problem. So the solution is the same regardless of which app you use.

Either way Kurt, Firefox Focus app or ad blocker app has to be installed. The private browsing mode would be fairly tedious to use on every site. Not sure why there’s resistance to using one of these apps. You and I, as well as so many others, do and have pretty well eliminated the problem.

both are set to the tightest privacy and ad blocker status possible.

It doesn't matter how many of Safari's and other settings you turn on or off on your iPad or iPhone.

Since the concept of pop up blocking appeared years ago, it has been a continuous game between the a-holes that want to shove ads in your face, and those who want to stop these intrusions (Apple, Microsoft, Android, Samsung, etc.). The latter find a way to block the current ways advertisers have found to get around the blocks, and the advertisers figure out how to get around the new block. Lather, rinse, repeat.

However, as has been explained by Lawrence numerous times, the pop blocker doesn't work because the Amazon/Comcast/whatever ads aren't popups at all. Popups always appear on the same site you are currently on. These are redirects to a completely different site that is designed to look like a popup.

There currently are no settings in any device by any developer/manufacturer that can stop all such intrusions. Why, I don't know. The fact that ad blockers succeed in doing it means Apple, Microsoft, Android, Samsung, etc. also could by adding similar functions, but for reasons unknown, haven't. That could simply be a matter of "Why reinvent the wheel?". Meaning, why spend the time writing the code for an ad blocker when it's already been done, been done well by others, and are readily available in the App Store?

The problem with this thread and why people keep missing the right solution which is an ad blocker is Apple recommended the wrong solution of just clearing the data. So people are doing that and then just posting it doesn’t work. Apple needs to recommend an ad blocker answer to stop the craziness of this thread.

You have to realize that Apple, Google and the others are in a delicate situation when it comes to advertising. Apple has actually done more, and taken more heat for it, especially in iOS 11. If you recall previously there were individual cookie blocking settings for Safari. Now the default is to block third party cookies. Or turn cookie blocking off altogether. Before there were options for just the site you’re on, only sites you visit, or never. Now that’s taken care of for you, no third party ones, only the sites you visit. Many ad companies howled.

So so it’s not really reasonable to expect Apple or any of the others to recommend an ad blocker. But ad blockers are not a suddenly discovered secret that’s just been uncovered by Indiana Jones that no one had ever heard about before. Any internet browser has run into intrusive obnoxious ads for years. Ad blockers have been around for years and extensively reviewed on the App Store. As unsophisticated as I am in technical matters I’ve been using one on my Mac for the best part of a decade and in my iOS devices for almost 5 years now. The other option, which Apple has also taken heat for, is to just use Reader view, which strips ads and other site distractions. I’ve set that as the default view for some web sites that I regularly visit because of the obnoxious formatting of the ads and images on those sites.

But that won’t stop the browser redirects that are occurring with this Amazon ad. It’s quite interesting that the loudest complainers here are not reading the actual posts and are calling this a virus. Right now we have three options, report the ad to those sites that you need to visit regularly, use an ad blocker, or just keep running into it, throwing up your hands and whining. I’m still amused that if it hadn’t been for my wife recently complaining about this I would have never heard about it and would have never found these threads. It took 2 minutes to resolve it for her with 1Blocker, and so far for me I’ve never seen it.

I, too, have been having this problem. It seems to recur whenever I log back into my google account after clearing my web data. I’ve signed out of my google account and the problem hasn’t recurred yet.

If you actually bother to read the thread you posted to you will learn that it is not a Safari problem. It also occurs with Chrome, Firefox and Opera on iOS devices, Chrome and all other browsers on Android devices, Edge, Chrome, Firefox on Windows, and all browsers on Macs. In other words, the platform doesn't matter; it is an intrusive ad that is served up by websites, and has nothing to do with the platform you are using. As it is just one of hundreds of ads (mostly legitimate) that are routinely served in rotation by websites if you haven't seen it on Chrome it just hasn't come around to it again on the sites you visit.

And you will also learn that the simple solution is to install an ad blocker on your phone. It isn't a popup; it is an ad designed to look like a popup.

Yes and yes, all suggestions to simply clear the cache do not work. The “same website“ is all news sites such as msn. I have just tried rvidovic suggestion settings>safari>advanced>experimental features>cache API and TURN IT OFF. So far no pop ups but I will let you know. Funny how it may just be an Apple ”experimental“ thing and not the trusted websites I have gone to for years...we will see.

I installed Wipr weeks ago and things were fine UNTIL... I started getting the Amazon fake page again... went to app and it said to refresh ... went to Wipr FAQ and found this:

Don’t “kill”/”close” apps in multitasking. If you do that to Wipr, it won’t be able to refresh until you manually launch it again.

Additionally, if you have

Background App Refresh

There is no point in going to an Apple store. It is not exclusively an Apple problem, and Apple has no way to control what spamming lowlife bottom feeders do for a living. See my tip on how to get rid of them for good: Dealing with Safari popups that won't go away