Seeing ads in free apps is usually a minor inconvenience, something which can be resolved usually by buying the premium version. But what happens when you start getting ads on your smartphone which you’ve paid for? That’s the behaviour that was observed a few weeks ago on some HTC devices who started receiving push notification ads, and it appears that Samsung has joined this club as Samsung has started pushing notification ads to its latest flagship devices. As the images below show, there are an assortment of ads being pushed by Samsung’s packaged apps like the Peel Smart Remote and Samsung Push Service:
At worst, these push notification ads are annoying, but the fact that Samsung is doing this can’t be pleasing to many of its loyal consumers. Of course, Samsung is likely just supplying the tools for advertisers to make use of their apps, like the Land Rover sponsored ad, but advertising their new devices on an older device just seems a little desperate.
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Source: Android Police
