Originally Posted by
boutela
As I mentioned above, you can block the Game Of War ad by turning off JavaScript in iOS Safari. (Settings/Safari/Advanced/JavaScript) The forum will be less pretty, but it's usable.
This suggests to me that it's not a Trojan, as does its periodic disappearance and reappearance.
I am a UK user too and have been plagued by the 'Game of War' pop up as shown a few pages back and it makes FT all but unusable on my iPhone. I can swipe back when it appears but often it just then reloads if the same dodgy ad has been served.
A few things I have found by experimenting. It disappears if you enable an ad blocking app which confirms it is coming from a compromised advert.
Secondly, and I have no idea why, it only appears when I view FT using cellular data (Vodafone in my case), and never when I am using wifi. This isn't country specific as write this from Germany where it has been appearing too when connected to 4G.