Re: Apple spews malware advertisingments all over the iPhone (again!)

On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 23:22:09 -0000 (UTC), badgolferman wrote :

That is further agreement that it's not "malware" since both companies
(T-Mobile and Apple) were very polite about making the ad go away.

 
Was the T-Mobile ad a T-Mobile Tuesdays notification or was it something
within the T-Life app itself? I get notifications sometimes.

Hi badgolferman,

It's a long story to answer your question, so I would just says it wasn't
an advertisement, per se like the Apple advertisement appears to be.

It was a fullpage video news story that popped up and went away easily.
Since I didn't invoke a fullpage video news story, I knew something did.
 *Warning: Check your phone for unwanted "Sliide" intrusive full-page video spam*
 <https://comp.mobile.android.narkive.com/gwmr7UwY/warning-check-your-phone-for-unwanted-sliide-intrusive-full-page-video-spam>

While iOS is completely brain dead, Android is a real operating system.
So I was able to easily find the exact name of what brought it up.

And then, again, since Android is a real operating system (unlike iOS), I
was easily able to again delete the app that T-Mobile installed June 5th.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/vTrHTPB2/t-mobile-play.jpg>

Did I say "again"? Yup. T-Mobile added back a package that I had long ago
deleted, so I deleted it again and I also checked my entire phone for any
other activity of a similar name (which is what brain-dead iOS can't do).

As I am wont to do, I wrote tutorials so that everyone else can do what I
can do on Android, but you can't do anything like it on the brain-dead iOS.

Those tutorials were tested in all the important operating setups, namely
Linux, command-line (Windows), and Powershell (Windows) which matter.

You can't do anything like this with iOS, unfortunately, so it's foreign to
you that you have that much power over what an operating system does.

It's actually shocking how brain dead iOS is compared to Android when you
need to identify and delete things that suddenly pop up, but that's life.

It's more proof iOS isn't an operating system; it's more a dumb TV screen.
Anyway, it wasn't an advertisement, per se.

It was video news story that T-Mobile added via a company called Sliide.
But it's gone now.

Meanwhile, iOS still has ads because you can't delete them on iOS.
They come from Apple.
Sigh.

 

But how do we convince Tyrone that it's not malware when he says it is?

 
I'm not even sure Tyrone is who he says he is, so don't waste your breath.

Yup. Tyrone is most likely someone who has been here before.

At first I thought Tyrone was nospam.
Mostly because he defended Apple to the death exactly as nospam does.

But Tyrone knows Windows networking better than nospam does.
The fact was nospam didn't know anything whatsoever outside of Apple.

But Tyrone is most likely one of the previous posters to Apple newsgroups.

However, Tyrone likely isn't one of the classic Apple trolls (like Alan
Baker or Your Name or Jolly Roger or even Chris, as none of them know
anything about Windows; but still, he's someone who knows the history here.

So I must ask you, nicely so, why you think there are ads when I haven't
seen those ads that you think are on Samsung devices?

 
My eldest son used to complain about all the bloatware and ads on his
Samsung Galaxy years ago. He switched to Google Pixel and was pleased with
the difference in experience when it comes to pop ups and such. I think
they were Samsung ads and such.

Well, I thank you for bringing this topic of ads on other systems, as you
know I'm a main proponent of UNDERSTANDING the differences between them.

I've confirmed that Windows 11 has "suggestions" from Microsoft.
And that you can turn most (if not all) of them off.

To my query on the Windows 11 newsgroup, Paul supplied this link:
 *How to disable Microsoft Ads and Recommendations in Windows 11*
 <https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-disable-microsofts-ads-and-recommendations-in-windows-11/>

Since I never see ads on my wife's Windows 11, and since I originally set
it up from Windows S top Windows 10 Home (she migrated to Windows 11), I am
"fairly sure" that this process disables all those ads you taught me about.

But if there are still ads in Windows 11, I'll keep my eye out for them.
Plus the thread I opened should, over time, flesh out if they still exist.

As for Samsung, I've never seen an ad, but what is hugely different between
a Pixel and a Samsung is the operating system Settings are different.

The Pixel is straight Android. The settings are exactly as documented.
The Galaxies have various Samsung overlays to the Android settings.

Other than that, there's no difference in the advertising, and, in fact, I
never see ads on any of my Android phones - but of course, I'm not stupid.

I set up my phone for privacy so if an ad shows up, it's time to kill it.
Which is what I did when that video news story popped up from T-Mobile.
 *Warning: Check your phone for unwanted "Sliide" intrusive full-page video spam*
 <https://comp.mobile.android.narkive.com/gwmr7UwY/warning-check-your-phone-for-unwanted-sliide-intrusive-full-page-video-spam>

It's my humble opinion that if an advertising shows up on any computer
device, then that computer device is set up incorrectly by the user.

Of course, on iOS, there's no way to stop the intrusive ads by Apple.
Which is the point of this thread after all. Sigh.