[dayglored]

Alas, no change. Wiped my history for all time (had to login to FR from scratch just now), but as soon as I hit the Dilbert blog page, a small overlay appeared in the upper right (”Open” “Get App”) and after 10 seconds the blog page redirected to a scary bogus page and a pop up dialog to download the “Free App”. Same as before.

Bollocks. I guess I’ll check again in the morning. Presumably somebody will write to Adams. Maybe I will if it’s not better tomorrow. And I’ll check some other platforms.

[Swordmaker]

Dayglored reports that Scott Adams' Blog of Dilbert fame has, on his iPad, been somehow been taken over by a persistent adware that links to some bogus free iOS apps that survives the usual means to get rid of these. This is not happening on my iPad Pro. I'm just seeing the usual assortment of personalized Google ads. . . for example I was doing an on line search for an air compressor and now I see ads for, you guessed it, air compressors. . . But no bogus iOS app links. Anyone else getting this? — PING!

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[Swordmaker]

Did you actually quit Safari or just close it? Try force quitting your iPad after force quitting Safari. I.e. Hold home and power button for fifteen seconds and then restart.

[Swordmaker]

Also in settings/Safari/advanced. Turn off JavaScript for a bit and see if that solves it.

[jsanders2001]

Run a good AV and it’ll probably find the embedded code and remove it from HTML code....

[BradyLS]

I think I’ve been getting something similar on my iPhone. There may be some tiny type in one of the corners that allows you to “go back to Safari” If you see that, click that, and you should return to the blog.