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  Blocking TEMU ads Jim the Geordie <jim@geordieland.com> - 2025-09-11 17:10 +0100
    Re: Blocking TEMU ads Marion <marionf@fact.com> - 2025-09-11 16:54 +0000
    Re: Blocking TEMU ads "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-09-11 19:44 +0200
      Re: Blocking TEMU ads Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-09-12 10:19 +0100
        Re: Blocking TEMU ads Jim the Geordie <jim@geordieland.com> - 2025-09-12 11:42 +0100
          Re: Blocking TEMU ads Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-09-12 11:44 +0100
    Re: Blocking TEMU ads Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-09-11 17:46 +0000

#150535 — Blocking TEMU ads

Sorry if this has been raised before.
TEMU ads are overriding everything when opening my Samsung A16 phone.
I do not have, and never have had the TEMU app installed, nor have I 
ever bought anything from TEMU.
I have looked at some online videos, but they either don't work for me 
or the voice is so heavily accented that I don't understand them.
I am usually careful of sites I open, but this one has sneaked in somehow.
Anyone help me?
-- 
Jim the Geordie

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#150537

Jim the Geordie wrote:
> TEMU ads are overriding everything when opening my Samsung A16 phone

Once, when I was testing cartoonify apps, full-page video loud obnoxious
ads started showing up IN THE APPs which I killed with Android 13 Galaxy
Settings > Connections > More connection settings > Private DNS > 
   Private DNS provider hostname = adblock.dns.mullvad.net

If someone doesn't have a private dns set up, they can't complain about ads 
(why? Becausde it's the first thing anyone would do to prevent seeing ads).

Another time a one-page ad popped up suddenly, each only once a day, which
turned out to be T-Mobile spam called "Sliide" from a T-Mobile app that I
had deleted but which came back after the software update was done.

Other than that, I've never seen an ad on Android (or Windows) that I can
remember, but my phone & computer are set up from the start for privacy.

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#150541

On Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:10:24 +0100, Jim the Geordie wrote:

> Sorry if this has been raised before.
> TEMU ads are overriding everything when opening my Samsung A16 phone.
> I do not have, and never have had the TEMU app installed, nor have I 
> ever bought anything from TEMU.
> I have looked at some online videos, but they either don't work for me 
> or the voice is so heavily accented that I don't understand them.
> I am usually careful of sites I open, but this one has sneaked in somehow.
> Anyone help me?

If I would guess it's your browser sending you these notifications. Have
you ever visited the Temu site? Do so and check the settings for that
website.

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s|b

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#150547

s|b wrote:

> Jim the Geordie wrote:
> 
>> TEMU ads are overriding everything when opening my Samsung A16 phone.
> 
> If I would guess it's your browser sending you these notifications.
Within Settings, look for the permission "draw over other apps" then see 
which apps have that permission (make a list in case you want to revert) 
  turn off the permission from apps which sound like they don't have a 
genuine need to do that.

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#150548

On 12/09/2025 10:19, Andy Burns wrote:
> s|b wrote:
> 
>> Jim the Geordie wrote:
>>
>>> TEMU ads are overriding everything when opening my Samsung A16 phone.
>>
>> If I would guess it's your browser sending you these notifications.
> Within Settings, look for the permission "draw over other apps" then see 
> which apps have that permission (make a list in case you want to revert) 
>   turn off the permission from apps which sound like they don't have a 
> genuine need to do that.
> 
That might work if I had TEMU app installed :(

-- 
Jim the Geordie

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#150549

Jim the Geordie wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> Within Settings, look for the permission "draw over other apps" 
>
> That might work if I had TEMU app installed :(

No, it might work for *any* dodgy app that's being paid to display TEMU 
adverts ...

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#150542

Jim the Geordie <jim@geordieland.com> wrote:
> Sorry if this has been raised before.
> TEMU ads are overriding everything when opening my Samsung A16 phone.
> I do not have, and never have had the TEMU app installed, nor have I 
> ever bought anything from TEMU.
> I have looked at some online videos, but they either don't work for me 
> or the voice is so heavily accented that I don't understand them.
> I am usually careful of sites I open, but this one has sneaked in somehow.
> Anyone help me?

  FYI, I also get TEMU ads in some places (I forgot which), but they are
*not* "overriding everything everything when opening my Samsung A56
phone". It's not a general problem, only in a certain app or a few apps.
I think it was some Google app(s). I'll try to pay more attention and
take notes next time.

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