Re: Warning: Check your phone for unwanted "Sliide" intrusive full-page video spam

Chris <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Jun 2025 06:07:07 -0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android,alt.cellular
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Marion <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 20:04:01 +0100, Woody wrote :
> 
> 
>>>> Digging about, I soon found the offensive full-page video activity was
>>>>   <com.sliide.content.MainActivity> (and yes, that's "sliide")
>>>> 
>>>> Apparently "Sliide" is a company that advertises directly to phones.
>>>> It was installed without my express consent, apparently, by T-Mobile.
>>> Hmmmmm...
>>> 
>>> I've never had anything like that happen in 15 years of iPhone use.
>>> 
>>> Weird.
>>> 
>>> :-)
>> 
>> Note that this mail is sent to three possibly US groups and one UK. Says 
>> it all really?
> 
> Hi Woody,
> 
> I'm not sure what your point is, so I'll just say this was NEVER sent by
> the OP to any Apple newsgroup - it was only sent to the following groups:
>  Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,alt.cellular,uk.telecom.mobile

The blatant point is don't post in a UK group when it has no relevance
there. T-mobile doesn't exist in the UK.