How do I block a specific domain from my iPad?

Prevent access to websites

iOS can automatically filter website content to limit access to adult content in the Safari web browser and apps on your child’s device. You can also add specific websites to an approved or blocked list, or you can limit access to only approved websites. Go to Settings > General > Restrictions > Websites and select one of these options:

• All Websites
• Limit Adult Content
• Specific Websites Only

Having exactly the same problem, also with the .top domain. Had it before with .club, .date and .win domains. Bloody annoying. Webpage spoofs a trusted source (currently amazon), but URL indicates otherwise. There are (fee) apps that can block entire domains, but the ijits will simply change the domain name, as I have discovered. Hope you get an answer, I am somewhat savvy but cannot figure out a permanent solution. Ad block setting on Safari does NOT work for these!

These are browser hijacks using javascript, they look like pop-up adds but they aren't really. The people doing them go in through the ad service on a site and then use javascript to get to you.

Supposedly the paid version of 1Blocker (I think that is the name) will stop them. After you encounter one you can close Safari (or whatever browser you use), go to Settings > Safari and erase the cache and browser history, then restart your iPhone. If you go back to the same site that has been hacked it will happen all over again.

I picked it up from Sports Illustrated site the first time I got one. I notified them and they acknowledged it and said they had cleared it. There is another thread here about people getting it from weatherchannel.com and other sites.

I think you are going to have to use 3rd party software to block domains but as was already said you will be blocking a LOT of them as they change them frequently.

I don’t know if this will work, but you can try enabling restrictions in general settings. Under the “websites” setting, turn on “limit adult content” and then put the web site in the “never allow”.

It will let me enter things with wildcards so I was able to put in “*.*.top” but I just don’t know if that will actually do anything.

Yep. And blocking “*.*.top” (*.* is a placeholder for any characters preceding the .top domain) didn’t work either. I’ve had three more of these pop up just since I last posted on this thread earlier tonight. Aaarrrggghhh. Guess the 3rd party app must be tried. (Paid version of 1blocker recommend by responder above.) I also tried writing to the website that these pop up on most frequently for me just in case they can do something from their end.

Good luck to you!

Apple are you listening?

Re: Amazon winner pop ups on my iPhone

Thanks, but the sites are generic; it WAS boredpanda.com, now it’s Reuters.com. I don’t frequent suspicious sites.

I’ve been cache-clearing and rebooting for ages.

Any idea how to block the domains?

Thanks, I’m thinking Apple should be encouraged revise Safari to include this capability. Domains might not be any harder than a ”*.top” block command.

It would actually be problematic in doing so within the browser and probably not something Apple wants to get into. This is an issue that websites/ad providers are going to have to deal with.

Worth a try!

As I explained above, and as was explained in the other thread I linked to, these are NOT popup ads.