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Websites are redirecting me to fishy sites

Hi everyone! Yesterday I was browsing the internet using Safari searching for solutions to prevent my iPad charger from heating up. There was a link to ask.com so I tapped on it, and within 10 seconds it redirected me to a page with an obvious scam on it - a fake gift card giveaway. I will attach a screenshot of the webpage.

Obviously I know it was a scam, I didn't tap anything on the page. But when I pressed the back button it wouldn't work. I closed the tab, went to Safari settings and wiped website data and cookies. The troubling thing is, I have been redirected to sites like this before on Chrome as well. Does my iPad have a virus, is it a phising ad, or is it browser hijacking? Someone please help!

Additional info:

iPad model: Air 2

OS: iOS 10.3.3, no jailbreak

It's basically a malicious ad on the site hijacking your browser.

some sites don't care about the ads they run, others mean well but are at the mercy of ad providers that don't police what they dish out.

Now that you've cleared data, as long as it doesn't persist you should be ok. if it does, then dig into your router and make sure it hasn't been compromised.

Thank you!

This has only happened ONCE on Safari, on only that site. However, that has happened several times on Chrome (I have deleted the app). I checked my router's DNS settings, they appear to lead to legitimate servers owned by the provider. To be safe I googled the DNS server IPs and they appear to be clean.

So it could just be a site with bad advertisements? Is it a browser hijack? How exactly do you define browser hijacking?

I define it pretty much as you experienced. You're on a page, an ad comes up, next thing you know your browser is on another page and you had nothing to do with it.

There used to be many app ads (and may still be) that would 'helpfully' open the app store to make it so much easier for you to download the app they were selling.

Things like that is why I have a flash and ad block extension on my browsers. I get that sites need to make money but if they can't/won't police the ads they dish out then they will just have to deal. To be fair, Ask probably doesn't even know it's happening. Many times sites contract with a third party for ads.

最後更新：2017-08-19 01:57:56

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