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From: Andrew <andys@nospam.com>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Annoying news and ads from Google app
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 00:12:30 -0000 (UTC)
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Carlos E.R. wrote on Sun, 8 Dec 2024 22:27:59 +0100 :

>>>> More than once, I've swiped left or right on a screen and been dumped
>>>> into a page with the Google header and a bunch of ads and clickbait
>>>> news items
>>>
>>> Sorry, I should have Googled (!) before posting. It's called
>>> Discover
>> 
>> It would be more useful if it showed news articles before they get 36 
>> hours out of date and avoided showing new stories behind paywalls.
> 
> When I hit a pay wall after an item in discover, I hit the three dot 
> menu, then "report this" as "other".

Thank God I've never seen any of this ad stuff but may I ask what app 
people are using that brings up these full-page ads on their Android phone?

When the OP says "Google app" in the subject line, is that the Google
Search App (I don't have it so I can't confirm with a package name).

Andy - is that the app the OP is talking about serving him ads?
What does it do (it's not on my phone so I can't test it out for him)?

Searching in Muntashirakon App Manager, I see an uninstalled app named
 "Google" com.google.android.googlequicearch... (it's truncated)

Is that the app that the OP is using? 

My phone works perfectly fine with that app uninstalled from the user
partition so I'm curious what it does for the OP that he really needs.

Also are they using a "private DNS" such as the one that I'm using:
 Samsung A32-5G Android 13 
 Settings > Connections > More connection settings > Private DNS
 (o)Private DNS provider hostname = adblock.dns.mullvad.net

Also, there's no advertising ID on my phone. Is there one on yours?
 Developer options = on
 Settings > Google > Ads (the advertising ID does not exist)

Otherwise, why have I never seen an ad on my phone even as I have almost 
900 apps on my phone and my bootloader version isn't rootable.