Facebook AdChoices on Tablet

chadwick404 · Mar 29, 2017

How do I remove the very annoying Facebook AdChoices from my Samsung tablet? Recently my Samsung Tab S 8.4 tablet started showing full page, home screen ads, with an Adchoices button (tiny, hard to press, too) in the lower left part of the ad. When I click on it, it opens my default browser and takes me to a mobile Facebook page. I see no options to turn off the ads, but do see options to report the ads (I do) or prevent some sort of tracking. How do I turn off the full page ads which are consuming my data (costing me money)?

webworkings · Mar 29, 2017

Note: Depending on the browser the location/wording may be a little different.

Go into your browser and then into the browsers "Settings". Locate "Site Settings" or "Advanced".

Now scroll down and locate the "Block Pop-ups" option and make sure it is checked.

Restart the phone and you shouldn't get the pop-ups anymore.

NOTE: If these are not actually coming through the Facebook site, or any other site, then you may have an app on the device that is the cause. To fix this you would have to change the settings in that particular app, or uninstall the app that is the cause.

chadwick404 · Mar 31, 2017

Hi, thanks for the reply. It is a tablet, not a phone, and as far as I can tell I've not lately installed anything to trigger this. And the ads are not arriving via the browsers (any of them - I have the default, Chrome, Firefox and Opra), they "pop up" to full screen "randomly" whenever I click from a homescreen page to almost any app.

For example, I could have a freshly powered-on tablet, no foreground or active background installed apps running, be at my home page, see a cluster of app icons, click on any one of them, and get a full page pop-up ad. At the bottom left hand corner it says "AdChoices" - I click on that and it rolls out a bit - I click on it again, it opens my default browser and takes me to https://m.facebook.com/adnetwork/xout/option/page/final - the only options i have are opting out of the ads that target me (but not the ads themselves) or reporting the ad.

I have no problem removing Facebook app - IF that is actually who owns this virus (yes, it is a virus as it maliciously uses my bandwidth and does not give me a choice to remove it - a reputable company would be transparent in how to stop it - e.g. clearly tell me to remove the app, if that is the only solution).

I've read where people did full resets and this still pops up...so, any other thoughts? I really wanted to know the solution before I actually started deleting and resetting things. I am hoping Tom's finds the solution for all, as it appears a whole bunch of people have an issue with this and most guidance is rather shallow, ill defined or even (seemingly) actively suppressed by Google et.al....

chadwick404 · Mar 31, 2017

Hi, thanks for the reply. It is a tablet, not a phone, and as far as I can tell I've not lately installed anything to trigger this. And the ads are not arriving via the browsers (any of them - I have the default, Chrome, Firefox and Opra), they "pop up" to full screen "randomly" whenever I click from a homescreen page to almost any app.

For example, I could have a freshly powered-on tablet, no foreground or active background installed apps running, be at my home page, see a cluster of app icons, click on any one of them, and get a full page pop-up ad. At the bottom left hand corner it says "AdChoices" - I click on that and it rolls out a bit - I click on it again, it opens my default browser and takes me to https://m.facebook.com/adnetwork/xout/option/page/final - the only options i have are opting out of the ads that target me (but not the ads themselves) or reporting the ad.

I have no problem removing Facebook app - IF that is actually who owns this virus (yes, it is a virus as it maliciously uses my bandwidth and does not give me a choice to remove it - a reputable company would be transparent in how to stop it - e.g. clearly tell me to remove the app, if that is the only solution).

I've read where people did full resets and this still pops up...so, any other thoughts? I really wanted to know the solution before I actually started deleting and resetting things. I am hoping Tom's finds the solution for all, as it appears a whole bunch of people have an issue with this and most guidance is rather shallow, ill defined or even (seemingly) actively suppressed by Google et.al....

MImholte · Apr 10, 2017

Dear Chadwick404-

Thank God I'm not the only one experiencing this horrendous issue w/ the stupid full page ads!!! I thought I was the only 1! And I get the SAME answers or suggestions as you have received. I even spent 3.25 hrs on the ph one night w/ all 3 possible helplines...Samsung, Google, and finally Flippin Verizon...they had no help to offer except that I must be slightly slow and not realize how to properly edit pop up blocker settings w/ chrome...or I have a diff setting that they wanted access to my ph to determine...to that I said hell no! The help desk associates were far dumber than I am, so they said the MOST frustrating line ever "You must've recently downloaded some app to cause this, and until YOU figure that out some magical way, we can't help you." Thanks fuggers, I'm convinced they wouldn't know how to help if they did know which app was causing this..if it's even an app at all?! And the final vacant headed person I talked to at Google only had the following instruction after having me hold for almost 27 min's..."I'm going to have you write down what I'm about to say so you understand how you're going to turn your phone off and then turn it back in safe mode" UUGGH!!!! I have worked on the ph's as a customer service associate for all of twenties...so I get how callers can be sometimes...but I'm the most patient and forgiving caller any of them could ever hope for..and when I worked on the other end, if I didn't know the solution, I wouldn't just fuggin guess!!! I was hoping to get at least a research ticket to figure this out...but nope.
Sorry for the novel, but I'm sure you feel the same way about this nonsense. It's ruining my mobile life! I'll be buying something, texting, doingredients anything or nothing--doesn't matter---This full page ad will just take over. SSSOOO unacceptable! And have you had the alarming Mexican music ad randomly blast off sound while your device is no where near you? On silent? And you race over to find a full page ads of a jumping Mexican Sombrero guy just dancing to music ?!
Please please PLEASE, Chadwick404...if you get any inkling of an answer or reason this is happening or a solution hopefully--Then Please please PLEASE let me know?! Thanks and good luck to you too
-Mischa

chadwick404 · Apr 10, 2017

MImholte :

Dear Chadwick404-

Thank God I'm not the only one experiencing this horrendous issue w/ the stupid full page ads!!! ads of a jumping Mex

Ha - you are funny and no, I've not had the music blasting ads (yet I am sure). But like you, no one seems to know how to remedy. The closest I've come to is that its integrated with Facebook and/or Chrome - my next steps is to completely uninstall Chrome, clear its cache, deep dive into any residual files, and then see how that goes. I've already uninstalled FB but I still get the ads. And like you, it is hard to explain to people I didn't download a stupid "ad causing" ap nor is this within the browser or any of a number of other scenarios - it is exactly as I described.

I have also considered using a proxy server for a country with stronger privacy laws and see if the tablet still deploys ads. I see for adchoices of Canada that they more strictly limits these advertising uses of devices. I also intend to email everyone I can associated with adchoices, FB and Chrome - they do link consumer group links where a person can easily complain - I intend to do so, plus a few others.

And finally, amidst all the glorious language of how targeted ads "help" me, they say absolutely nothing about how its integrated into my tablet or other devices, nor how to remove, stop or otherwise uninstall. There is some info on how to "opt out" but its only for "tracking" which would quickly redeploy I am certain. So "opt out" isn't the solution not a real option.

Oh - I also think Google is somehow blocking solutions on the web - I see a constant pattern of so little info on this subject, and how to remedy - and even occasionally see the "its good for you" for adchoices....I wonder if Bing searches would yield more results.

I promise to be the biggest ass I can be about it though - I already report each ad (via their link) as spam, illegal, sexual or whatever - as you say, fuggers.

MImholte · Apr 11, 2017

Haha, yes "fuggers" is the only way to describe them at this point. I also got Facebook and messenger off my ph via Uninstall, but that wasn't the solution. I have been wary to do the same to Google Chrome, I use my phone alot for my linked acct but I agree the process of elimination isn't looking good for Google.
I know it's extremely frustrating to "Google" possible other cases of this or solutions. I think you're right that Google is blocking these articles on purpose. I'll try bing and other search engines too and let you know what I find. I keep reporting each ad too, but they sure don't come less frequent, it sucks.

chadwick404 · Apr 12, 2017

I saw this today: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/android-app-displaying-popup-adverts/ I've not read the comments yet, but this deals with the adchoice full screen popup issues we are facing. It is utter horse hooey to have to deal with a surreptitious app with a supposedly reputable (ha) consortium solution like adchoices....if adchoices were legit they would show how to stop full screen popups on phones and tablets - the fact they do not makes them nothing more than malware to me.

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