Ads Are Taking over Samsung’s Galaxy Smartphones

Samsung is forcing ads to their phone users and there is nothing you can do to stop them. It started with an ad from DirectTV in the stock dialer app.

Now ads exist throughout a bunch of Samsung apps. Samsung Music has ads that look like another track in your library. Samsung Health and Samsung Pay have banners for promotional ads. The stock weather app has ads that look like they could be news. There is also more often very blatant advertising in most of these apps as well.

If you’re a Samsung user, you might be wondering “how do I shut off the ads?” The answer is, unfortunately, you (mostly) can’t. You can disable Samsung Push Services, which is sometimes used to feed you notifications from Samsung apps. So disabling Push Services means no more push notification ads, but also no more push notifications at all in some Samsung apps.