App store randomly opened by itself

[mikeeeey]

Have you guys encountered this before?

Like when using Safari, It suddenly switched to app store showing a random game. (Many times its brave frontier)

I closed all pages and leave only hwz pages. Also kena.

Not all the time but like once every 3-4 days of usage? Sometimes it wont happen for more than a week. Very random

 

[comwhizcjscjs]

get this too. no idea why

 

[angelmiao]

same case here.
think is a bug

 

[PetPet]

it's not a bug.
it's an advert abusing a URI link causing the redirection to the App Store.

 

[mikeeeey]

So the problem lies with HWZ pages?

 

[negativzero]

Certain websites have ads which embed redirects to their app on the AppStore.
So far I only know for sure mangareader uses that kind of ad. There are other websites that have this too but not all the time.
Its dirty and its one of the reasons I use adblocker on my jailbroken phone to disable all ads

 

[mikeeeey]

Just got redirected twice when visiting mypaper.sg

Indeed it was a ad banner that caused it. So is there any way to block ads on non-jb phones?

 

[punggolkid]

Yep. I get this too when I visit mypaper website.