I have the same problem but on another forum. This forum works good for me. I tried installing those apps. But my iPad is so old I get a window saying the "apps are not compatible with this iPad". Almost time for a new iPad.

Man I glad to see someone else has the same problem with their iPad. Mine must be to old as well, I got the same response when I tried to download one of the apps as well. I hope they fix this soon, it looks like they have trying to fix this since October.

My iPad is so old, it doesn't let me download anything now

Same problem here with old Ipad. Downloaded Google Chrome. Working good now. No Amazon
pop-up.

Amazon should be ashamed of themselves. And if they are not directly responsible they should be doing something to stop it. Mine still does it even after I turned on the blocker.

These are Phishing attempts and are actually easy to get rid of if the site owner would do it. Amazon has nothing to do with it.

John

Originally Posted by bigrcr

These are Phishing attempts and are actually easy to get rid of if the site owner would do it. Amazon has nothing to do with it.

John

I don’t think the owner of FG cares less if there is a buck to be made.

FWIW, I have noticed that if you turn off javascript under advanced in the settings for safari on the ipad, it stops redirecting. However, then you can't watch embedded videos.

Originally Posted by bigrcr

These are Phishing attempts and are actually easy to get rid of if the site owner would do it. Amazon has nothing to do with it.

John

I have "0" I.T. skill or knowledge when it comes to this, but what I don't understand is that they have been working on this since Oct. and its not been fixed, could or would they be getting paid off this annoying pop-up?

Originally Posted by madinpensacola

It’s an intrusive ad. Use this app. It completely got rid of it for me and others.

Wow this thing works. I was getting the Amazon ad last week, on my iPhone then it stopped. Today it and “winning ads” started popping up. This ad blocker has stopped all of that and a lot more. Thanks Mark!

Originally Posted by 74Ranch

I have "0" I.T. skill or knowledge when it comes to this, but what I don't understand is that they have been working on this since Oct. and its not been fixed, could or would they be getting paid off this annoying pop-up?

The amount of money they are loosing either by people just not using the site anymore, or installing ad blockers mostly likely far outweighs any revenue they might get from one rogue ad.

The problem as I understand it is they need to be able to report the ad that does the redirecting to whatever ad provider they use. After the redirect happens, there is no clue which ad it came from. So it's not easy, although it seems like with sufficient motivation and tooling it should be possible.
There may be other more sweeping ways to solve the problem using newer browser features, but that would undoubtedly involve a lot of rewriting and testing, and finding a balance that lets legit ads do what they need to do and yet block rogue ads may be pretty difficult.

Of course there may be a third option: switch to an ad provider that does a better job of vetting ads.

Originally Posted by KenSue

Wow this thing works. I was getting the Amazon ad last week, on my iPhone then it stopped. Today it and “winning ads” started popping up. This ad blocker has stopped all of that and a lot more. Thanks Mark!

It’s our secret Kenney.

Now I’m getting it on iPhone too... so stupid, fix it FG!

Yep, malicious google ads that we want gone too. The techs are working on it.

It’s getting really old really fast