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amrinurtama

amrinurtama

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Recently I experienced Google Playstore poping up randomly lead to one particular app, and can be different app for each popups.

My latest app download was screen recorder, already deleted it.

I really appreciate if anyone can help. Thanks.
 
The play store shouldn't have any pop-ups. You most likely are seeing spam from a recently installed app that's pushing you to the play store to install their (cr)app.
 
lunatic59 said:
The play store shouldn't have any pop-ups. You most likely are seeing spam from a recently installed app that's pushing you to the play store to install their (cr)app.
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Yes I mean directing to playstore. I uninstalled it but sometimes still happening. Any idea how to figure this out? Or any solutions? Thanks.
 
Did you install any apps shortly before the popups started happening? Which ones? And which apps are you being directed to with the popups?

Those are your biggest clues in finding out which app is responsible, so if you share them with us that gives us something to go on.
 
amrinurtama said:
Yes I mean directing to playstore. I uninstalled it but sometimes still happening. Any idea how to figure this out? Or any solutions? Thanks.
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Some "free"(adware) app or game you installed or was updated recently possibly? Apps installed from the Play Store itself shouldn't be doing this though, but have you been installing anything from outside of Google Play or Amazon Appstore, i.e. sideloading APKs from untrusted sources?
 
Xyro said:
Did you install any apps shortly before the popups started happening? Which ones? And which apps are you being directed to with the popups?

Those are your biggest clues in finding out which app is responsible, so if you share them with us that gives us something to go on.
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Yep as I mentioned, the last app installed was screen recorder. I'm being directed to various apps, mostly games and sort of signal enhancer apps. It happened couple times.

I mean, is there any way that I could find which app behind this?
 
mikedt said:
Some 'free'(adware) app or game you installed or was updated recently possibly? Apps installed from the Play Store itself shouldn't be doing this though, but have you been installing anything from outside of Google Play or Amazon Appstore, i.e. sideloading APKs from untrusted sources?
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I think I did not download anything outside playstore
 
amrinurtama said:
Yep as I mentioned, the last app installed was screen recorder. I'm being directed to various apps, mostly games and sort of signal enhancer apps. It happened couple times.

I mean, is there any way that I could find which app behind this?
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Well what's this "Screen Recorder" app? If necessary post the Play Store URL or publisher's website for it.
Do you know if that's ad supported or not? That may have this type of ads in it, that promotes and pushes other apps in the Play Store, especially if it was free. Something like that could be pushing ads while it's running? Perhaps it has a paid version that doesn't have ads in it?
 
You could also be getting browser popups if you visited a website that is playing some browser tricks on you. The easiest way to check/fix this is to go to settings>apps>browser* and clear both cache and data (this will most likely delete your bookmarks, cookies and saved passwords so be ready to re-enter that information).

"browser is whatever app you use to surf the net. It could be chrome or firefox, but on some phones it's just called "internet".
 
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