Question Samsung Galaxy and Google Ads

Buddha888

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I've had my Samsung Galaxy S10 for about three years. And it was only several weeks
ago that I started to get these little Google ads popping up on my screen. They would
last for just a couple of seconds. But it's got to the point that I am now sick and tired of
them.

Does anybody know I can stop them?

Cheers, Ian
 

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This is definitely not coming from your phone's OS (unless you have a modified OS version with ads). So let's try to figure which app is pushing ads here. (If none of these help, try snapping a picture when they appear and post here without personal info and we'll keep trying!)

1) Are these ads over a specific app, or do they appear over any app, the homescreen of your phone included? If it's a specific app, you know which one to target. If it's over every app, let's keep digging.

2) Do they show up as overlays on the screen, or as notifications? If overlays, you can check the list of apps that are allowed such permission on your phone and that will narrow it down to a more manageable list.

3) If it's a notification, is there a "Play store" icon next to them? If so, they should only be ads recommending apps you may be interested in or events related to your own apps. You can turn this off in the Play Store settings.

4) If it's a notification with a browser icon, most likely you enabled push notifications for a malicious site via said browser. The list of sites that are enabled these can be checked (and disabled) through the browser app that's pushing them.

5) If there are no known icons on the notification banner, try long-pressing it and see the options that come up. That likely will tell you which app is pushing them and furthermore, can tell you which 'category' it belongs to.

6) Less likely, but check your data connection settings. If a malicious app changed the DNS address, they may be redirecting your traffic through a server that injects ads into your datastream.
 

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I have all these settings disabled and of course did not opt in for ANY of the non-mandatory options. But I still see these ads. I am on US Unlocked.

The most of the people who claims that they do not have ads are not in US. If you do not see ads, that's fine.

May be you are annoyed by seeing these 10 reddit posts about those ads. Imagine how much we are annoyed when we see ads multiple times a day, everyday!
 

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I have all these settings disabled and of course did not opt in for ANY of the non-mandatory options. But I still see these ads. I am on US Unlocked.

The most of the people who claims that they do not have ads are not in US. If you do not see ads, that's fine.

May be you are annoyed by seeing these 10 reddit posts about those ads. Imagine how much we are annoyed when we see ads multiple times a day, everyday!
Can you post an image of said ads? I am in the US and have had Samsung phones for years (both locked and unlocked) and I have never seen ads that I didn't op into (albeit inadvertently, sometimes), so I'm sure there has to be something that we can do to make them stop. Unless they are the 'app suggestions' from either the PlayStore or the Galaxy Store (all of which aren't full screen and non-disruptive), there are no ads in the OS as such.
 

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The point of people saying they don't see any ads is primarily to indicate that it's highly unlikely to be a system issue. It's much more likely that it's associated with some app you installed -- there are a lot of unscrupulous devs out there who will throw in adware without any kind of warning.

You can confirm that it's not from the system by booting into Safe Mode: https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/...htB60pN_Ia2upb9tiI1NvbvNyhmOxtQhiC4fqYCeMfySp. If the ads go away, then something you installed is the culprit. But it can be tedious to pinpoint the exact app causing the issue -- sometimes you have to uninstall them one by one until the problem goes away.
 
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