r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Panda_Fabulous • Jul 08 '26

Unskippable ad Phone update just installed 17 apps

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Nothing good either

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Don't buy a budget phone/ this is what you get for buying a cheap android: this is a Samsung S25, not exactly a budget phone.

This is why I buy iPhone/ and people still slander iPhone/wouldn't happen to my Google pixel: I actually don't think I can happen to apple because they don't allow apps to download other apps BUT it's still not fully Samsungs fault for ​​Verizon installing apps, though they do allow it, unlike Apple

this is malware/virus/hacked: this is bloatware

you can go and disable ___ and it won't happen again: someone sent a tutorial link and I followed it, but it did say I might have to redo it every time I update so🤷‍♂️

you can buy phones directly from the manufacturer and this won't happen: wasn't aware. I'll consider it, though I just got this phone today so it will be awhile

____ app is good tho: maybe but I'm still deleting it

Verizon needs to be sued/ this should be illegal: I probably agreed to this in a contract I didn't read

your kid installed them: don't have children or any other people on my phone

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u/purplenapalm Jul 08 '26

O wow I feel like i never came across it.

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u/AFerociousPineapple Jul 08 '26

Consider yourself lucky, it was spammed everywhere

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u/baseballviper04 Jul 08 '26

It shockingly still is

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u/CharlotteLucasOP Jul 08 '26

I had a decent adblocker on my computer so for a while there I forgot YouTube had random ads on videos until I was watching something on my phone and got BLASTED with a Raid ad.

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u/ToastyBroskii Jul 08 '26

They even paid the YouTubers to do add reads for them all the time.

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u/kirikovich Jul 08 '26

Shout out to the sponsor block Firefox extension, I haven't seen a raid shadow legends ad read in ages. Seeing this thread is giving me flashbacks haha

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u/ToastyBroskii Jul 08 '26

Premium does it now I watch so much YouTube and listen to stuff on my phone at work so it pays off. That’s cool tho!

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u/Viablemorgan Jul 08 '26

Is this where TheLegend27 came from? Or was that some other ad thing

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u/baseballviper04 Jul 08 '26

That was a different super pay to win mobile game, Game Of War

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u/Viablemorgan Jul 08 '26

Ah yes, thank you

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u/purplenapalm Jul 08 '26

Thanks for asking because I used to see a SHIT TON of ads for that. Wasn't sure how to ask with basically no info lol.

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u/Temporary_Event8451 Jul 08 '26

Lol I feel like you're dodging the fact you don't watch a lot of YouTube. If you do watch a lot of YouTube it has to be consistently the same creators without any home page usage.

Over the last five years it's probably been in 15% of all videos I watch.

Also if you use sponsor block, no shit you wouldn't see the adds. The only sponsors that don't really get caught by sponsor block are when creators don't tag it or are trying to hide from YouTube they have a gambling sponsor.

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u/purplenapalm Jul 08 '26

I have youtube red so i dont get ads. I think it may have been scrolling reddit/Facebook or as commercials for NFL games.

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u/TesticleMeElmo Jul 08 '26

Do you want the Cheshire Cat or the forest wizard guy or the “EPIC” purple cat thing with your new player promo code?

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u/EliteKombuchaBrouwer Jul 08 '26

My work is to advertise this game and others on socials. Its still one of my biggest campaigns

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u/WilanS Jul 08 '26

Most likely you did, multiple times even, and then you immediately forgot about it every time because that's how memorable that game was.

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u/Winjin Jul 08 '26

From what I saw it's like the epitome of mobile strategyslop

There's countless games like it, none of them have even an iota of personality and all steal aggressive monetisation from one another

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u/Sloppykrab Jul 08 '26

No no, we are talking Raid: Shadow Legends.

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u/Neako_the_Neko_Lover Jul 08 '26

That amazing. Even the people on sentinel islands of heard it /s

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u/TraditionalEnergy956 Jul 08 '26

Bro we had a cutscene of a game talking about behind the scenes sponsor who pricked our purchase, RAID was all over the place comments were saying at one point I thought it's RAID.

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u/zappingbluelight Jul 08 '26

Dam you are lucky, you never seen those YouTuber getting pay like thousands for reading an ads on their channel. Anyway today's comment is all thanks to the sponsor of the day raid shadow legend.

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u/purplenapalm Jul 08 '26

I have youtube red so i dont get ads and the content is view on YouTube has never done an ad read for these games. Pardon My Take, Drop a Pin, Stavvys World, etc. Dont advertise games at all. Usually dick pills, a rotation of seltzers/beer, and better help.

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u/MSS_Sphere Jul 08 '26

Imagine a casino with multiple slot machines with a cookie clicker disguised as a game. Better yet, it's made by a casino company.