Android 12 question

MouldyOldDough

How do you prevent all of the links to Newspapers etc appearing 
The guardian is the worst it keeps on appearing despite being deleted 

RumRat

OK....What?  You need to be more specific...Is this in a browser or in every app? Post a screenshot...

Neil_Jones

MouldyOldDough said:

How do you prevent all of the links to Newspapers etc appearing 
The guardian is the worst it keeps on appearing despite being deleted 

This is probably (Google) News.

You can go innto the settings and turn off the notifications altogether, or reduce the frequency

ballyblack

• If your default browser is Chrome, Open Chrome navigate to Site Settings (3 dots top right) and make sure the "Pop-ups" section is set to "Blocked".

MouldyOldDough

Neil_Jones said:

MouldyOldDough said:

How do you prevent all of the links to Newspapers etc appearing 
The guardian is the worst it keeps on appearing despite being deleted 

This is probably (Google) News.

You can go innto the settings and turn off the notifications altogether, or reduce the frequency

Google news app is not installed - according to play store !

Yet news keeps on appearing - where does it come from ?

MouldyOldDough

ballyblack said:

• If your default browser is Chrome, Open Chrome navigate to Site Settings (3 dots top right) and make sure the "Pop-ups" section is set to "Blocked".

I know that I said "pop ups keep appearing" but it looks more like an app, rather than pop up

its a whole page of them - from swiping left from home screen

you can supposedly prevent them by using the 3 dots top right and saying "NO MORE OF THESE" - Yet they keep on reappearing

Neil49

I don't quite understand what you are getting but I recall getting something similarly annoying (but swiping right from Home) a while back which I stopped. 

In Settings scroll down and select Home Screen. Part of the way down there should be the option to deselect "Add Media Page to Home Screen" I think this is set to On by default.

Best of luck. 

MouldyOldDough

Neil49 said:

I don't quite understand what you are getting but I recall getting something similarly annoying (but swiping right from Home) a while back which I stopped. 

In Settings scroll down and select Home Screen. Part of the way down there should be the option to deselect "Add Media Page to Home Screen" I think this is set to On by default.

Best of luck. 

 It's not on the home screen
It's a seperate page

Neil_Jones

Then since everything we've suggested doesn't work the issue is probably being caused by an app you have on your phone.

When you get the notification you should be able to swipe down on it and it should show you what app is causing it.  You can then go into that App's settings and you should be able to change the amount of notifications.

The other option could be to get Android to block the notifications, though this may have the unintended effect of blocking something you want to see depending on what app is causing this.

RumRat

What phone is it?

stinky_daddy

I think the OP means when on the main home screen (1st page if multiple pages) if he swipes left (either accidentally or intentionally) the stories / headlines in the News Feed page and comes up via READ menu at bottom of screen