Help Frustrating Google Ad

[Edward_W]

I shot a video today to show to my son. When we viewed it later, I would pause the video to point at things and explain them to him. Every time I paused it, a Google ad would appear near the top of the screen, nearly always covering the spot we were trying to look at. There was no way to skip it or close it or remove it--the X in the corner just gave me the option to complain about that specific ad (inappropriate, irrelevant, etc.) so it could show me a different one. There was no way to stop it from blocking the exact thing we were trying to see.

Maddeningly frustrating.

I was using the default Gallery app that came on my Samsung Galaxy Note 5 (through Verizon.) I do not remember seeing Google ads there before, but I don't shoot a lot of videos and maybe I just didn't notice. Either way, I'm fine with adds supporting the free applications I download. But for Google to force adds over the top of my personal videos via my phone's default software is absolutely unacceptable to me. How do I make it stop forever? If the solution causes painful boils on the Google executives responsible, that would be especially nice.

Or is it possible I have some rogue app that's putting Google adds in places Google never intended? I searched the web for a while but found nothing that seemed to fit.

Also, while I'm willing to use a third party gallery app to circumnavigate this problem, it's not my preferred solution. I'm used to the default gallery, and I almost always prefer the simplicity and integration of the default apps vs third party apps that try to do more than what I need.

Thanks.

And now that I remembered to read the directions...
Android version 6.0.1
Not rooted
If I didn't' post this in the right location, I'll be glad to fix it.

 

[mikedt]

I shot a video today to show to my son. When we viewed it later, I would pause the video to point at things and explain them to him. Every time I paused it, a Google ad would appear near the top of the screen, nearly always covering the spot we were trying to look at. There was no way to skip it or close it or remove it--the X in the corner just gave me the option to complain about that specific ad (inappropriate, irrelevant, etc.) so it could show me a different one. There was no way to stop it from blocking the exact thing we were trying to see.

Maddeningly frustrating.

I was using the default Gallery app that came on my Samsung Galaxy Note 5 (through Verizon.) I do not remember seeing Google ads there before, but I don't shoot a lot of videos and maybe I just didn't notice. Either way, I'm fine with adds supporting the free applications I download. But for Google to force adds over the top of my personal videos via my phone's default software is absolutely unacceptable to me. How do I make it stop forever? If the solution causes painful boils on the Google executives responsible, that would be especially nice.

Or is it possible I have some rogue app that's putting Google adds in places Google never intended? I searched the web for a while but found nothing that seemed to fit.

Also, while I'm willing to use a third party gallery app to circumnavigate this problem, it's not my preferred solution. I'm used to the default gallery, and I almost always prefer the simplicity and integration of the default apps vs third party apps that try to do more than what I need.

Thanks.

And now that I remembered to read the directions...
Android version 6.0.1
Not rooted
If I didn't' post this in the right location, I'll be glad to fix it.

Could be this adware gallery app is something Verizon puts on their locked, customized and subsidized version devices? Along with the NFL stuff and other Verizon bloatware.

"painful boils on the Verizon executives responsible, that would be especially nice." ..more like I think.

Google is essentially an ad company, they serve ads on many platforms through Google Ads, AdMob and Double Click, but I've never heard of them putting ads in their own gallery app, and nor the stock Samsung gallery app.

 

[Hadron]

And if it really is the stock app that's responsible, and not Verizon or something else you've installed, that's actually a Samsung app rather than a Google one.

I've never heard of such things before either, but it would be interesting to know whether any Verizon customers recognise it.

 

[alxcortzProgamz]

I have a ZTE n817 phone. 2 Core cpu, 512MB(400MB actually). I rooted the phone with KingoRoot. I linked almost all the apps I downloaded after rooting it to the SDcard.
I go through my phone with adb and linux computer, I found videos, like 10 of them inside the folder of the game Sniper. It was all ads. The folder was 200MB. Not only videos but .jpg as well. I removed all the videos. I had to. That phone only has 1.7GB of internal storage. I was looking through other apps folder on sdcard0/Android/data
and found ads of video and pictures. Again I had to remove it because it was slowing the phone. So far the sniper game works fine, especially on a cheap phone with low ram and cpu.