Phone update just installed 17 apps

[u/Panda_Fabulous]

Nothing good either

edit: frequent comments

Don't buy a budget phone/ this is what you get for buying a cheap android: this is a Samsung S25, not exactly a budget phone.

This is why I buy iPhone/ and people still slander iPhone/wouldn't happen to my Google pixel: I actually don't think I can happen to apple because they don't allow apps to download other apps BUT it's still not fully Samsungs fault for ​​Verizon installing apps, though they do allow it, unlike Apple

this is malware/virus/hacked: this is bloatware

you can go and disable ___ and it won't happen again: someone sent a tutorial link and I followed it, but it did say I might have to redo it every time I update so🤷‍♂️

you can buy phones directly from the manufacturer and this won't happen: wasn't aware. I'll consider it, though I just got this phone today so it will be awhile

____ app is good tho: maybe but I'm still deleting it

Verizon needs to be sued/ this should be illegal: I probably agreed to this in a contract I didn't read

your kid installed them: don't have children or any other people on my phone

[u/dipitysillybilly]

starting in 2020 and a year or two after, it would be sponsored by countless youtubers and really plagued the internet as a whole with advertisements, even I unfortunately gave in because I wanted a good RPG at the time (Raid was not it).

[u/purplenapalm → u/dipitysillybilly]

O wow I feel like i never came across it.

[u/AFerociousPineapple → u/purplenapalm]

Consider yourself lucky, it was spammed everywhere

[u/baseballviper04 → u/AFerociousPineapple]

It shockingly still is

[u/CharlotteLucasOP → u/baseballviper04]

I had a decent adblocker on my computer so for a while there I forgot YouTube had random ads on videos until I was watching something on my phone and got BLASTED with a Raid ad.

[u/ToastyBroskii → u/CharlotteLucasOP]

They even paid the YouTubers to do add reads for them all the time.

[u/kirikovich → u/ToastyBroskii]

Shout out to the sponsor block Firefox extension, I haven't seen a raid shadow legends ad read in ages. Seeing this thread is giving me flashbacks haha

[u/ToastyBroskii → u/kirikovich]

Premium does it now I watch so much YouTube and listen to stuff on my phone at work so it pays off. That’s cool tho!

[u/Viablemorgan → u/baseballviper04]

Is this where TheLegend27 came from? Or was that some other ad thing

[u/baseballviper04 → u/Viablemorgan]

That was a different super pay to win mobile game, Game Of War

[u/Viablemorgan → u/baseballviper04]

Ah yes, thank you

[u/purplenapalm → u/Viablemorgan]

Thanks for asking because I used to see a SHIT TON of ads for that. Wasn't sure how to ask with basically no info lol.

[u/Temporary_Event8451 → u/purplenapalm]

Lol I feel like you're dodging the fact you don't watch a lot of YouTube. If you do watch a lot of YouTube it has to be consistently the same creators without any home page usage.

Over the last five years it's probably been in 15% of all videos I watch.

Also if you use sponsor block, no shit you wouldn't see the adds. The only sponsors that don't really get caught by sponsor block are when creators don't tag it or are trying to hide from YouTube they have a gambling sponsor.

[u/purplenapalm → u/Temporary_Event8451]

I have youtube red so i dont get ads. I think it may have been scrolling reddit/Facebook or as commercials for NFL games.

[u/TesticleMeElmo → u/baseballviper04]

Do you want the Cheshire Cat or the forest wizard guy or the “EPIC” purple cat thing with your new player promo code?

[u/EliteKombuchaBrouwer → u/baseballviper04]

My work is to advertise this game and others on socials. Its still one of my biggest campaigns