Re: Annoying news and ads from Google app

Andrew wrote:

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?

It never shows me adverts, let alone full-page ones, some of the news stories are thinly veiled promo stuff scraped from news websites or paywalled articles from the same.  It acts as an extra "page" to the left of the home screen.

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).

I can reach a similar app by launching "Google" from the app drawer, it's not identical, it also has a search bar and some buttons to do lens image search, lens translate, song ident and lens homework question search.

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)

Yes, that is the name of the non-home screen version mentioned above, the full name is com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox
It looks like a mega-launcher for every Google activity going, if you've got the APK look at the massive list of activities/services/providers etc
My android launcher is the standard "Pixel Launcher", but it shows some history in the app name com.google.android.apps.nexuslauncher
Here's a "long" screenshot from the app version (not the launcher version)
<http://andyburns.uk/misc/googlequicksearchbox.png>
It does have an option to "use without an account"