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Web ads re-directing you to an app on the App Store

Happens to me too and it never happened before I installed iOS7. Loads more ads on websites and then that awful redirection to the app store which happens way too frequently.
iOS7 obviously allows this spam, why? Of course Apple can stop it!
 
Yeah this seriously needs to ends. Apple needs to block App Store links from opening without being clicked. Completely unacceptable and a brainless form of advertising.
 
Web ads re-directing you to an app on the App Store

sunking101 said:
Happens to me too and it never happened before I installed iOS7. Loads more ads on websites and then that awful redirection to the app store which happens way too frequently.

iOS7 obviously allows this spam, why? Of course Apple can stop it!
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Where is your proof that it is due to iOS 7. Perhaps you did not notice it before installing iOS 7 because the shady advertisers using this only started doing it around the time that iOS 7 was released. Links have been able to open the App Store for a while now, not just in iOS 7. My understanding is that the issue revolves around a script built into shady ads that automatically opens the links without user interaction. I understand you are having issues with iOS 7 (I have seen your complaints about battery life, safari reloading, etc.) but not every issue is necessarily related to it.
 
~Ks383~ said:
Where is your proof that it is due to iOS 7. Perhaps you did not notice it before installing iOS 7 because the shady advertisers using this only started doing it around the time that iOS 7 was released. Links have been able to open the App Store for a while now, not just in iOS 7. My understanding is that the issue revolves around a script built into shady ads that automatically opens the links without user interaction. I understand you are having issues with iOS 7 (I have seen your complaints about battery life, safari reloading, etc.) but not every issue is necessarily related to it.
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It never happened to me with iOS5 and iOS6 and I strongly suspect that Apple have either allowed this shady practice, or they are unaware of the loophole. The latter wouldn't surprise me in the slightest as they evidently did very little testing of iOS7 before it was released. I noticed loads of problems within one week of use.
 
Web ads re-directing you to an app on the App Store

sunking101 said:
It never happened to me with iOS5 and iOS6 and I strongly suspect that Apple have either allowed this shady practice, or they are unaware of the loophole. The latter wouldn't surprise me in the slightest as they evidently did very little testing of iOS7 before it was released. I noticed loads of problems within one week of use.
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As I said in my previous statement, just because you did not notice it on iOS 5 and iOS 6 does not mean that it is due to iOS 7. The method could possibly work on iOS 5 or 6 and the shady advertisers could have only started using this method around the time that iOS 7 was released. It could be due to one of the reasons you state, but you have no proof that it is.

It would be relatively easy to prove though. You could find a site/ad that causes this behavior on iOS 7 and then try it on a device running an earlier version of iOS. I would do it myself but I do not have any devices running anything other than iOS 7.
 
~Ks383~ said:
As I said in my previous statement, just because you did not notice it on iOS 5 and iOS 6 does not mean that it is due to iOS 7. The method could possibly work on iOS 5 or 6 and the shady advertisers could have only started using this method around the time that iOS 7 was released. It could be due to one of the reasons you state, but you have no proof that it is.

It would be relatively easy to prove though. You could find a site/ad that causes this behavior on iOS 7 and then try it on a device running an earlier version of iOS. I would do it myself but I do not have any devices running anything other than iOS 7.
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Me neither, that would be the acid test.
 
It happens to me ALL THE TIME!! Just about any site I'm on no matter if there isn't an ad or a link to that app it'll redirect me to the App Store to download that rubbish. It's extremely frustrating when all you want to do is watch a video or read and have to constantly stop the page from loading go in and out of apps to get back to what you were doing only for of to happen again and again!
 
I've noticed this myself on a few sites I (used to) visit periodically. It's really annoying because you don't even have to click anything. I honestly thought it was just me experiencing this. I don't visit those sites any longer because it's just became too irritating to deal with repeatedly.
 
its freaking annoying ... before iOS6 i always suspected some tweak to cause it but now that im on iOS7 without a jailbreak it is still happening and soooo annoying
 
Web ads re-directing you to an app on the App Store

bushido said:
its freaking annoying ... before iOS6 i always suspected some tweak to cause it but now that im on iOS7 without a jailbreak it is still happening and soooo annoying
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So, are you saying that you noticed this issue on earlier versions of iOS? I ask because I was having a discussion earlier in the thread with the another forum member as to whether it was an iOS 7 specific issue or not but neither of us had a device that was running an earlier version of iOS to check.
 
Daveoc64 said:
Fix what?

The web is an open platform. It's not up to Apple to police it.
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Actually, Apple are being very naughty.

Type the following URL into Safari, and you will see the iTunes application start up.

itunes://

What's very wrong with this is that 'itunes' is not a standard web protocol, unlike http, ftp, file, https etc. If Safari played ball properly, an address like the above should not be resolved. Type sdcsdckjnksdcn:// into Chrome, for example, and it won't complain that no application is set to respond to a URL of that form. It will do a search instead.

By contrast, requesting some kind of resource via a URL, be that an image file, a movie, a spreadsheet or whatever, provides the browser with a hint as to how the file should be opened, and that can/should happen automatically.

Apple are on the naughty step here.
 
It's happens many times a day in Safari but also other apps like Facebook. It's very annoying to be reading an article and without selecting a link or touching screen at that moment or even seeing an ad the App Store is launched with some Candy Crush type game. I have only noticed it with iOS 7. Hoping something other than disabling JavaScript will stop it, but I have not read of any other solution.
 
There is a simple way to fix this:

You must voice your opposition to not only Apple, but the developers that are using this type of advertising.

Email them, and tell them you will never buy anything they develop because of their unscrupulous advertising behavior.
 
I am going to try to restrict installing apps through the restriction settings which hides App Store and see if it does anything. Even if it does that will be a pain when I want to install anything.
 
C DM said:
I believe this whole issue is about it happening in iOS, where there are no such things unfortunately (short of jailbreaking perhaps).
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Thanks for catching that! That'll teach me to post before I've had a full cup of coffee! :)
 
I can't imagine this form of advertising to be all to effective. I've been to some sites via the Facebook browser (linked) and it does it once a minute even. Makes you not only want to avoid the apps advertised, but the sites that contain those ads.
 
Faced up with this annoying issue aswell. I do like that- download that application, leave one star review and delete.
 
Happened to me awhile go on when I was on iOS 7, the ad link redirected me to the Appstore for Candy Crush.

Doesn't happen in iOS 6, the add pops up and stays in Safari.
 
E2EK1EL said:
Happened to me awhile go on when I was on iOS 7, the ad link redirected me to the Appstore for Candy Crush.

Doesn't happen in iOS 6, the add pops up and stays in Safari.
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Interesting that it didn't happen for you on iOS 6. I might try my girlfriends iPhone 5 on iOS 6 later to see if it does it, if I know of a site that does it on my iPhone.
 
My friend was on PerezHilton's website and literally just put her finger on the page (not on a link, or banner) and it immediately took her to the App Store to get Candy Crush. Then I tried it on my iPhone, did the same exact thing.

I think websites are coding a giant invisible target on their page that redirects you to the App Store.

Apple needs to add a feature in Restrictions like "No App Store Linking" (kinda like "No In-App Purchases").
 
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