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GO Contacts EX = airpush ads?

Adauth

Adauth

Android Expert
I just started recived airpush ads and add ons dectector is telling me its coming from GOcontacts EX. Say it isnt so!
Anyone else experiencing this?
 
Well apparently its not just me as the app is getting slammed on google play. Sneaky sons of b!t#%&$.
 
I've got Go SMS and Go Keyboard. They've been getting pretty obnoxious with their own push ads. I even get SMS messages for Go Chat (which I don't use). Pretty annoying.
 
Dang it...I've trashed GoLauncher and GoContacts/Dialer. Gone to Nova Launcher and the phone's stock contacts/dialer app.
 
I've not seen any myself yet however I'm ready to zap the app the first notification ad or unwanted shortcut I see.
 
I have almost ninety apps installed, none with pushing or marketing, a few with unobtrusive (aka ignorable) ads. I try new apps all the time and they have to get though AppBrain’s and Lookout’s detectors before I run them.
 
I did dl Lookout's ad detector today when I read this thread, but can't get the bugger to get past 81% without it FC on me at the moment... :thumbdown:
 
Recently tried Go keyboard which also had air push ads. Uninstalled very quickly. Rather foolish and cynical way to undo all the goodwill they built up with their products. Certainly will not touch them again.
 
Air pushed ad just hit me. Deleted Go Contacts and ad went with it.

That was a low blow Go Dev Team - my trust in your apps has been shattered. I'll now be looking at replacing my other Go apps with other, less insidious ones.
 
What's so wrong with push ads anyway? There are no ad banners anywhere else in the interface. The most it does is bug you with a single ad once every few days.
You can dismiss it pretty easily too.
 
INvinter23 said:
What's so wrong with push ads anyway? There are no ad banners anywhere else in the interface. The most it does is bug you with a single ad once every few days.
You can dismiss it pretty easily too.
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The problem is, at least for me, that they tried to sneak it in. And if you're going to have ads in your app, the least you can do is give the users an option to buy a version that's ad-free.
 
It's not just the ads - first of all my notification bar is for my phone to tell me stuff I want to know. Free apps that advertise within their own area are OKish but this is like watching TV and suddenly having a advert run in the middle of a scene.

Besides this is not the extent of AirPush - it can also drop shortcuts on your home screen which reappear until you delete the offending app.

AirPush apps seem to be designed to wait several days before they activate thus making it harder to identify the rouge app in question.

At least now we have scanners that'll help detect these things.
 
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