Website advertisement companies have found a way to circumvent the protections introduced in iOS 8 to stop users from being kicked to the App Store because of certain cleverly-coded JavaScript advertisements.
Ugh, watch the video. This would drive me crazy.
Ha, this used to happen in some apps with embedded banners even. Made the app completely unusable, literally. I’d really be interested for whom this works. Is there any one party in this whole deal which isn’t annoyed by this?
Six Colors (and maybe others in that video) use ads by The Deck. The Deck has very deliberate curation of both the ads they accept and the sites that run them. I’d be pretty sure that they’re not accepting ads with scammy Javascript tricks like this, so it makes me wonder if this is affecting people who’ve done something like a jailbreak or have installed some other app that’s hijacking the redirects.
There’s no way even sites like Business Insider would knowingly run an ad that automatically and instantly redirects you out to the App Store. There’s something else going on here.
It happens happens without clicking on an ad; and it will never be fixed on my iPhone 3GS.
It was an epidemic briefly with the Washington Post, I tweeted at them and they paired me up with one of their admins nailing down which pages had the polluting ads. My only fix was to change Safari to accept only cookies from the page I was on. This of course broke signing into Flickr because it now insists on using a Yahoo ID.
I also started leaving 1 star reviews and trashed the apps I was redirected to. They all need to suffer.