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Hapax Legomenon

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I can no longer access AW on my phone. Every time I go to AW on Safari, I get a popup that redirects me to the app store, usually to the lyft app but sometimes to games. I've heard that there are ads that will do this for mobile users and it prevents access to the site they're advertising on. Has anybody else had this problem recently?
 

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An interesting article

another one


All I can do is give links and sympathy, having no iphone to get hijacked. Might try clearing cache, anyway:

1 Launch the Settings app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
2 Scroll down and tap on Safari.
3 Now scroll all the way to the bottom and tap on Advanced.
4 Tap on Website Data. ...
5 Scroll to the bottom again and tap on Remove All Website Data.
6 Confirm one more time you'd like to delete all data.

Gnarly, phones are.
 

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I've already done that and it works for a few minutes.

Can AW file a complaint or something with their ad people?
 

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I doubt very much that one of the ads on AW is causing this. Our site admin takes great care to keep everything clean and functional.