List of known apps with aggressive ads

[Casey Cheung]

I experienced this a couple times whereby my entire lock screen was hijacked and started randomly playing an advertisement video for drinking Bud Light beer, etc. I had to swipe left or right of the of the spam screen just to get to my normal lock screen. I removed many various apps, but the problem persisted. Finally, I gave up and did a factory restore to erase everything. This happened not just once, but twice. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly which app caused this problem, but I suspect it was a free radio app that I was using. I haven't installed any radio apps back onto my Note S9 after doing the factory restore, and everything has been okay again for the past few weeks.

 

[Jasjones845]

One more for the list that I uninstalled from a friend's phone, Power Security Antivirus.

There are hundreds of posts in the forums about these intrusive ads and a generic list of the apps pushing them include many categories: calculator, flashlight, keyboard, camera, antivirus, photo editor, PDF reader, free games ...

In general, this kind of apps has several bad reviews in the Play Store where users reported these annoying ads. My recommendation is to take a couple of minutes reading the reviews before installing any app and, of course, leave a one-star review if you had this problem.

Exactly! Before installing any App, we should read user reviews first then proceed to the installation process. This is the right way to get the perfect application in your mobile.

 

[butera records]

TxTStory is another one that aggressively forces ads. Even when you're not using the application and doing something else it gave me an ad that was a full screen.

What I should have done is uninstall that app to see if the ads went away but I reset my phone just to get rid of them.

 

[Adam SmithTech]

You can use adblocker to block ads from the app. I have used lucky patcher on my device, But some apps do not work.

 

[hummer50]

Potato Streams definitely

 

[Windroid 2483]

You can use adblocker to block ads from the app. I have used lucky patcher on my device, But some apps do not work.

Yep. A system-wide ad-blocker (somthing which blcks ads in apps) is the way to go. Advertising networks these days, unfortunately, amount to malware-distribution sites. Malvterising is too common for ads to be trusted.

Of corse, when an app hijacks your screen even when you're not in the app, the app itself is malware! Such an app isn't to be trusted, even if the ads it's trying to display are being blocked.

 

[Rendell Sibal]

Basically I got a small list of apps with known aggressive ads (pop ups on homescreen, lockscreen takeover ads, etc). Let's add to this list!

1. Dream Shell Icons
2. Apps by EpicOmegaApps
3. Apps by PINWHEEL
4. Snap Pic Collage Color Splash
5. Super-Bright LED Flashlight/Torch
6. ES App Locker and ES File Explorer
7. GO apps (GO Keyboard, GO Launcher, etc)
8. KittyPlay
9. Peel Remote App
10. Photo Editor Pro
11. TouchPal apps
12. VideoShow video editor
13. Xender
14. Zero Team Apps (Z Camera, etc)
15. HiFont
16. Battery Doctor
17. FotoRus
18. UC Browser
19. Apps2SD
20. 360Security
21. LOCX: App Lock
22. XBrowser
23. Solo Launcher
24. Dolphin Browser
25. Amber Weather
26. PIP Camera
27. KingoRoot
28. Power Security Antivirus
29. TxtStory

https://forums.androidcentral.com/t...-apps-that-doesnt-have-limit-per-day.1071383/ can we pls help me regarding to my post?

 

[Rendell Sibal]

Ooh, great idea!

https://forums.androidcentral.com/t...-apps-that-doesnt-have-limit-per-day.1071383/ can we pls help me regarding to my post?

 

[Rendell Sibal]

Yep. A system-wide ad-blocker (somthing which blcks ads in apps) is the way to go. Advertising networks these days, unfortunately, amount to malware-distribution sites. Malvterising is too common for ads to be trusted.

Of corse, when an app hijacks your screen even when you're not in the app, the app itself is malware! Such an app isn't to be trusted, even if the ads it's trying to display are being blocked.

https://forums.androidcentral.com/t...-apps-that-doesnt-have-limit-per-day.1071383/ can we pls help me regarding to my post?

 

[B. Diddy]

https://forums.androidcentral.com/t...-apps-that-doesnt-have-limit-per-day.1071383/ can we pls help me regarding to my post?

Sorry, but I have very little knowledge (nor interest) in AI apps. I realize that it's "the big thing" right now, but I find that there's a lot of garbage out there, without much practical usage yet. I think AI has to mature much more before it becomes truly effective (and I won't go off about my concerns that it'll just further atrophy the human brain).

 

[mustang7757]

https://forums.androidcentral.com/t...-apps-that-doesnt-have-limit-per-day.1071383/ can we pls help me regarding to my post?

Hi
You have already made a post on this so please stay within your post and members will help out if they can

 

[mustang7757]

Thread ran it's course, going close this