Recent content by Very-Annoyed

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    Question Annoying Ads appearing on news notifications

    Hi there Tube, Well I've given your suggestion a try and it was quite straight forward really, barring my bad spelling and seeing "can't connect". Seemed to work fine once I realised my mistake. Will see how things go re the ad's now. Have only just changed it but will give you an update in a...
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    Question Annoying Ads appearing on news notifications

    Looking for Blokada that's mentioned above by Joeldf. I found that available on the Google Play for download, version 6 in fact. Think Blokada may have changed how it works recently to avoid Goolge's policy on Ad Blockers. Link below:-...
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    Question Annoying Ads appearing on news notifications

    Thanks for the advice from you all,. I had installed AdBlock Plus yesterday and things seemd to improve adwise since. On seeing uBlock Origin mentioned above, which I used on PC and didn't know it was available for Android, I've swapped to uBlock as recall it was good and had great reveiews...
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    Question Annoying Ads appearing on news notifications

    Hi notforhire, Thats not a screenshot of a webpage, it's from within the text of a news article.! But I'm not as good with Android related stuff as Windows/PC
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    Question Annoying Ads appearing on news notifications

    So how do I go about turning the Personalised Ad's settings on and off please? Sure I've tried doing that before and works for a while but then they come back, perhaps after some update. Will an ad blocker stop those appearing with a news article? Also will these type of ad's be pushed at anyone...
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    Question Annoying Ads appearing on news notifications

    Oh well, I'll turn the notification s for back on then if it's needed. Cheers for that!
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    Question Annoying Ads appearing on news notifications

    Hi again B.Diddy, Just read through this and have gone into the Notifications and the websites there. One that jumps out at me is Digital Wellbeing. No idea what that is as I haven't installed or downloaded it. I have read now that it's reguarded as being Spyware but that it's somehow part of...
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    Question Annoying Ads appearing on news notifications

    Thanks for chipping in WInmod21, I've been using an adblocker for some years now on my PC, currently using AdBlock with Firefox on it and never have popups or popunders or any other unwanted stuff, it's very effective combined with Firefox. So as AdBlock only works in combination with Firefox...
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    Question Annoying Ads appearing on news notifications

    Hi again, Found one of these ad's within a news article this morning, took the screenshot and promply lost it, seems screenshots now don't get save with other images by default! Anyway had a browse thgrough the Google news article and found another similar type which I'm attaching for you to...
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    Question Annoying Ads appearing on news notifications

    Thanks for the quick reply B.Diddy. Was hoping to find something on the phone now but a case of Sod's Law the only notification I had was actually ad free. I can't say definately but I think that when I get them they are via Google which may tie in with these being connected to to some setting...
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    Question Annoying Ads appearing on news notifications

    Hi there, I'm new here so please bear with me if I've posted in the wrong place or missed something important I have a Motorola E6s that's running on Android 10. The phone works fine for me, does everything I want but I have an issue with ads appearing! I have very little in the way of extra...