how to stop redirected ads on android tablet

littlerock

A couple of weeks ago my android tablet started pushing redirected ads at me and it is getting annoying. I have all my os settings set to reject ads and i run adblock browser. Which is not stopping it. I have checked all my apps and there is nothing I can see set up to redirect ads so it must be well hidden Any idea where it might be so i can rootle it out and destroy it. I am running latest plain vanilla os.

dipsomaniac

don't know what a plain vanilla os is but if it was my tablet i would backup and do a factory reset

littlerock

what i meant is latest version of operating system, unmodified. I would like to know how it gets in and where so i can block the back door for the future.

AndyPix

It has to be an app you installed.


They usually take the form of "battery boosters" and such.
They behave for a couple of weeks so they are not flagged as the culprit and then they start throwing ads at you like this.


Go to settings- application manager and weed it out in there

kwikbreaks

If you root your tablet you can use apps like adfree or adaway which block advertising urls in the hosts file. I do that myself but it still doesn't block every advert although it seems to get most for the browser.

I suspect some ads are hard coded into the apps themselves which would explain the amazing number of updates you get for android apps. Of course it may just be that the ads are served from the developers own servers rather than the ad networks and those urls don't get blocked in hosts.

AndyPix

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Of course it may just be that the ads are served from the developers own servers rather than the ad networks and those urls don't get blocked in hosts.

^^ Its this

littlerock

I have removed all but original apps - google etc - and problem persists I have noticed and checked by experimenting that it is following my searches in kind of ads it is pushing so it must be recording somewhere but devil if i can find it. (I do have tablet settings set to block ads and run adblock browser. )

JJ_Egan

Searches then question is what are you using to search with .
You will be better to factory reset and install apps one by one and test .
Likewise no idea what vanilla OS is as no clue as to what tablet is .

toshi

I am not sure exactly what you have done, but back to the basic.
Let's scan your mobile phone. As Andypix suggested, you might get malware etc. I would recommend Kaspersky internet security free version. You can download this form Googleplay store, or Aptoid etc.

I am using adaway (which is great!), but I don't think it block malware based adverts.

AndyPix

Vanilla just means its stock android.


OP - these apps sometimes use the same name as regular apps.


See if you have 2 "facebooks" installed

AndyPix

Also OP, go into settings - application manager
then find your browser, and clear cache and clear data


that'll shift it