How do i get rid of ads on home screen of samsung s8

[Mikkos]

I choose to opt out all, and it stop the pop ads, at least for now. For me, it is kinda intrusion into our property.

 

[Doug Moffat]

I've been forced to pay for Adguard. Be sure to sideload from site and not use crippled version on Playstore.

Not against advertising but they are abusing the capability.

 

[Alvdan88]

Most likely a Third Party app is creating this! What Non-Stock apps do you have on your phone? (Meaning Downloaded to your phone) If you give me a list i can let you know exactly which app is causeing this. Thanks!

I choose to opt out all, and it stop the pop ads, at least for now. For me, it is kinda intrusion into our property.

Ads By Google had nothing to do with ads Pop-ing up on your screen, Yes it probably fixed it for your issue, But there are other applications that you could be using/Downloaded that are not considered "BAD" but might have some kind of code within it to create "Homescreen/Pop up Ads"

 

[favcolorblu]

Odd because I went through every single "Third Party" , "Non-Stock", "Download", not "factory installed", and wat not to find the ad is still there on my friends phone when trying to help her. Thought of factory resting the phone as scanners will or did not remove them either. I am pretty tech savvy so this will be fixed next time see her; have some other ideas going to try like it is possible that it's coming from a source that was tricked into opting in for the Ad or as well try to change/add the startup theme (wallpaper) to see if it will get rid of it.

 

[tube517]

Any flashlight apps on your phone? Some of those are the worst with ads on the screen.

Does it have any battery booster apps, ES file explorer, or Flash Keyboard?



Check this list if the phone has it:



• Amber Weather Widget • ES App Locker • GO apps (of note: GO Weather, GO SMS, GO Keyboard, Next Browser) • Kingo Root • KittyPlay Wallpapers, Ringtones • TouchPal apps (TouchPal makes multiple keyboard apps) • Xender (file transfer app) • Zero Team apps (of note: Z Camera)



These are all known apps that can put adware your phone and put unnecessary ads on your homescreen

 

[Gayle Lynn]

Application can hide themselves. Not going to announce itself being in plain sight if it's malware. Call it "stealthware" but would show 'something' running Top.

 

[waynezill@gmail.com]

On my phone it was the Flashlight app I had installed that was doing that issue. It is being caused by one of your apps. I uninstalled and installed a different flashlight app and the issue went away.

 

[tube517]

Peel Remote app is another one I forgot to mention that puts ads

Why are there ads on my lock screen and how can I get rid of them? | Samsung Support UK

 

[John Ryan6]

I found the culprit by pressing recents as wspaw suggested above. I had the same pop ups problem and tried removing several apps that were identified as usual suspects, like the flashlight. Malwarbytes was no help. I solved my problem by deleting S Photo Editor that came prebundled on my new Samsung S8 plus. No more pop up ads since I deled that.

 

[Mochaqueen2]

Removing the last app did the trick for me.....Invest.com had apps popping up everywhere, smh

 

[anonymous4212]

To remove the ads download an app from the website given below:
Opt-out of mobile recommendations

It worked for my Samsung Galaxy A7

 

[Mat777]

If you press your Recents button on the navigation bar while the ad is playing, you can long press the icon in the top left of that window. It will identify the offending app. You can then uninstall it. FLV Player did this to me about once a day. I finally found this solution in a thread on this forum and it worked.

Thank you a lot !!!!!! Simple & genius. Worked perfectly for me! I've been struggling from a long time... Thanks once again!

 

[Jarriel08]

Does it have any battery booster apps, ES file explorer, or Flash Keyboard?



Check this list if the phone has it:



• Amber Weather Widget • ES App Locker • GO apps (of note: GO Weather, GO SMS, GO Keyboard, Next Browser) • Kingo Root • KittyPlay Wallpapers, Ringtones • TouchPal apps (TouchPal makes multiple keyboard apps) • Xender (file transfer app) • Zero Team apps (of note: Z Camera)



These are all known apps that can put adware your phone and put unnecessary ads on your homescreen

I just downloaded es file explorer pro, does that get rid of the ads?

 

[tube517]

I just downloaded es file explorer pro, does that get rid of the ads?

That's one app that definitely puts adware. Uninstall ES File Explorer Pro.

 

[TamMus]

I installed Go Weather yesterday and I started getting banner ads on my home screen.
Just FYI, I had used Go Weather in the past and I did not have the ads.
I removed Go Weather and the ads are now gone.
It looks like they added this annoyance to the app. Too bad. I really liked it but now I have no interest in it.