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

On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:15:49 +0100, Andy Burns wrote :


>> T-mobile doesn't exist in the UK.
> 
> T-Mobile UK (then a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom) and Orange UK (then 
> a subsidiary of France Telecom) merged to form EE (now a subsidiary of 
> British Telecom).

Thanks Andy for explaining that connection between T-Mobile and British
Telecom, where the main immediate warning is to look for "sliide" content.

Especially since Sliide is based out of London.

Anyone can easily search their entire phone for Android activities with
"sliide" in the name (as explained on the Android newsgroup separately).

The hard part is simply knowing what to look for, i.e., "sliide".

Since a well set up computing device (whether PC or Android) should never
show up any advertisement (ever!) or unwanted activity, it behooves us to
be vigilant to discover the activity of unwanted activities popping up.

 *Tutorial: How to ID (& kill!) any Android activity & its package*
 <https://comp.mobile.android.narkive.com/qpP2TLVf/tutorial-how-to-use-a-pc-to-find-kill-a-rogue-android-activity-its-offending-package>

For those on Apple products, the problem is far worse because it's Apple
who is serving the ads and there is no known way to stop those ads.
  <https://www.theverge.com/news/692276/apple-wallet-notification-f1-movie-ad>

Luckily, on Android, we should never see ads ever, and if we do, then
someone put them there and we can find out exactly who did that to us.