I am using iOS 8.4 on my iPad. When I looked at my Safari history today, there were records for multiple adult sites on Wednesday and the previous Friday. I didn't visit these sites, and I know no one else with access to the iPad did. My pop up blocker is turned on. Is it possible that these sites popped up and were blocked? Could they still show in my browser history of this did happen?
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Do you have any other devices connected to the iCloud account that your iPad is using? Browser history will sync between devices.
I can't offer a definitive answer, however, I can add my experience/observations to what TigerMSTR offered.
I use Newsify on an iPhone and an iPad for my Feedly fix and Feedly in a special Standard User Account on my Mac. I also use a Guest User Account to get my ESPN and BleacherReport fix. I also use one iCloud account across my iOS devices and 4 User Accounts on 3 Macs (I need to travel to my 3 offices).
I have noted that both cookies and browser histories from my Feedly activity and cookies from my Guest User Account activity populate all of my iOS and Mac activities, so I'll find BleacherReport.com and ESPN/go.com cookies from my Guest sessions everywhere and cookies and browser history from my Feedly sessions from either the Newsify app or the Feedly web site on all of my devices. I've also found populated cookies from pages I saved to my Reading List from the Newsify app. Sigh.
I find bookmarks and cookies from my Private Browsing sessions populated among my devices as well. Someone you know (wink, wink
) could have used a PC/Mac to surf for porn, and iCloud could have been synching that data to your iPad. I religiously clean out my caches and check Safari's Metadata Caches file then remove everything in it.
I use Newsify on an iPhone and an iPad for my Feedly fix and Feedly in a special Standard User Account on my Mac. I also use a Guest User Account to get my ESPN and BleacherReport fix. I also use one iCloud account across my iOS devices and 4 User Accounts on 3 Macs (I need to travel to my 3 offices).
I have noted that both cookies and browser histories from my Feedly activity and cookies from my Guest User Account activity populate all of my iOS and Mac activities, so I'll find BleacherReport.com and ESPN/go.com cookies from my Guest sessions everywhere and cookies and browser history from my Feedly sessions from either the Newsify app or the Feedly web site on all of my devices. I've also found populated cookies from pages I saved to my Reading List from the Newsify app. Sigh.
I find bookmarks and cookies from my Private Browsing sessions populated among my devices as well. Someone you know (wink, wink
) could have used a PC/Mac to surf for porn, and iCloud could have been synching that data to your iPad. I religiously clean out my caches and check Safari's Metadata Caches file then remove everything in it.