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A while ago my HTC phone started showing full screen ads whenever I unlocked the phone. It was a bundled app called Peel Remote which changed its behaviour duri
by richdougherty 9y ago
A while ago my HTC phone started showing full screen ads whenever I unlocked the phone. It was a bundled app called Peel Remote which changed its behaviour during an update.
I took some detective work to figure out which app was causing the issue since there's no visible clue on the ad itself, and since I have never used Peel Remote. I eventually figured it out somehow and disabled the app. I imagine that lots of other HTC users are still dealing with this.
HTC should really protect their users from this abusive behaviour by their partners.
EDIT: Mention that I've never even used Peel Remote, which makes the ads even more annoying!
- gideonparanoid 9y agoFor some context: Peel Remote is an app for using the IR blaster to control your TV/DVR. HTC used to have their own app for it, but it got discontinued so they put up Peel Remote as the replacement. I was about to consider this a shame, as HTC's own app was pretty good, but not sure if I would trust them not to put ads in it anyway now.
- JohnTHaller 9y agoSamsung pulled the same thing years ago with the S4. They bundled "Beaming Service" to handle the IR blaster made by a third party company called MoBeam. MoBeam decided to start doing push ad notifications for their crappy coupon clipping app. After I was woken up after midnight by one, I decided I'd never buy a Samsung phone again. It couldn't be uninstalled or disabled. And this was before you could turn off notifications from a single app in Android.
- Al-Khwarizmi 9y agoThe keyboard mentioned in the OP is also a third-party app (TouchPal). HTC's own keyboard included in older models never had ads as far as I know.