[The Truth Will Make You Free]

I’d been getting these annoying “You have won!” popups on my iPhone. Rather than clear all my data and history (standard recommended fix), I selectively deleted the pages from Safari history. Then I went to Settings > Safari > Advanced > Website Data to search and delete items containing the deleted page domain, goog, ama, ad, cdn, any number, cloud, and any number. I also scanned the largest items and deleted many. This fixed things... for a while.

I’ve noticed the google files keep coming back. Google-analytics, apisgoogle, about 7 of them. And these are MB size files. Who knows what’s in them? They are obviously the google ad system but likely used by popups. The offending files maybe the “cloud” items which have a long string of numbers in their name.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

In reading all 6 segments of the original article, I saw that Content Blockers can be installed on the iPhone to prevent ads and tracking. AdGuard and Firefox Focus look to do the work. No more manual web data deletes.

[Swordmaker]

I’d been getting these annoying “You have won!” popups on my iPhone. Rather than clear all my data and history (standard recommended fix), I selectively deleted the pages from Safari history. Then I went to Settings > Safari > Advanced > Website Data to search and delete items containing the deleted page domain, goog, ama, ad, cdn, any number, cloud, and any number. I also scanned the largest items and deleted many. This fixed things... for a while.

It’s an entire webpage that exists as redirecting script an ad in GOOGLE’s ad rotation. As part of the scrip it preloads your browser history with it’s own URL for multiple visits to its own URL address. . . I’ve seen up to 100 "visits" in both directions, past and future. The best way to clear that is to force quit Safari then clear your history, then reopen safari.

[Still Thinking]

I have the feeling that those files become more informative over time, therefore if you delete them regularly, they may still exist, but carry a lot less information.