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Title: Unscrupulous website adverts again redirecting some users to App Store from Safari
Post by: HCK on March 19, 2015, 09:00:17 am
Unscrupulous website adverts again redirecting some users to App Store from Safari

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. I am now experiencing this myself, and it makes browsing on the iPhone unusable. Browsing to websites such as Reddit and Reuters and others now automatically open the App Store. […]<img alt="" border="0" src="(http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif)?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=370337&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />

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