Is this on purpose? EEVBlog Forum messed up...

[ivaylo]

See attachment. There is some sort of Javascript injected in the forum opening a popup on random pages sending you to Amazon or something. Can’t believe this is on purpose, forum is almost unusable. I am seeing this on iPad/Safari...

[BravoV]

Nope, just tested few minutes ago, never happened on my Android phone & tablet browsers, old ipad Safari, desktop Chrome and Firefox.

[ataradov]

It probably depends on ad serving sever and what it thinks is "relevant" to you. I just tried to browse for a while, and never got this.

[Marco]

Probably some advertiser found a way to sneak a popup through google adds for a while before getting hit with the ban hammer.

[ivaylo]

Thanks for checking, guys... It started yesterday. It doesn’t send you to Amazon when you click close, but an Amazon styled site (attachment). Can’t go back either. I am fine ignoring flashy ads, this one takes over the session. Super annoying...

[frozenfrogz]

Is it only on the EEVblog, or are you getting similar events on other sites too?

As a work around, you can deny certain urls for safe measure in iOS.

Settings -> General -> Restrictions -> Websites -> Never allow... Add a website --- should do the trick.

You should be able to block all .top top level domain urls - that might result in some issues though, for example visiting www.tophats.com, if the filter is just checking for strings in the url. I do not know how the filter actually works in iOS and I have no device to test it myself.

[Stray Electron]

  I found that Windows seems to be incapable of blocking certain URLs through the Settings. Particularly those associated with various "Home Shopping Assistants" aka browser hijackers.  I now filter all of my non-desirable sites via the Windows "hosts" file and it stops them dead in their tracks.

[retiredcaps]

I am fine ignoring flashy ads, this one takes over the session. Super annoying...

A quick search says some "malicious ad" got into google's ad network.  Recommended action is to clear your browser data, cookies, site data, etc

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8255372

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/no-you-didnt-win-a-1000-amazon-gift-card-heres-why-you-saw-a-weird-pop-up-ad-on-rollcall-com