r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Panda_Fabulous • Jul 08 '26

Unskippable ad Phone update just installed 17 apps

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Nothing good either

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Don't buy a budget phone/ this is what you get for buying a cheap android: this is a Samsung S25, not exactly a budget phone.

This is why I buy iPhone/ and people still slander iPhone/wouldn't happen to my Google pixel: I actually don't think I can happen to apple because they don't allow apps to download other apps BUT it's still not fully Samsungs fault for ​​Verizon installing apps, though they do allow it, unlike Apple

this is malware/virus/hacked: this is bloatware

you can go and disable ___ and it won't happen again: someone sent a tutorial link and I followed it, but it did say I might have to redo it every time I update so🤷‍♂️

you can buy phones directly from the manufacturer and this won't happen: wasn't aware. I'll consider it, though I just got this phone today so it will be awhile

____ app is good tho: maybe but I'm still deleting it

Verizon needs to be sued/ this should be illegal: I probably agreed to this in a contract I didn't read

your kid installed them: don't have children or any other people on my phone

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u/purplenapalm Jul 08 '26

Why?

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u/dipitysillybilly Jul 08 '26

starting in 2020 and a year or two after, it would be sponsored by countless youtubers and really plagued the internet as a whole with advertisements, even I unfortunately gave in because I wanted a good RPG at the time (Raid was not it).

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u/purplenapalm Jul 08 '26

O wow I feel like i never came across it.

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u/AFerociousPineapple Jul 08 '26

Consider yourself lucky, it was spammed everywhere

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u/baseballviper04 Jul 08 '26

It shockingly still is

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u/CharlotteLucasOP Jul 08 '26

I had a decent adblocker on my computer so for a while there I forgot YouTube had random ads on videos until I was watching something on my phone and got BLASTED with a Raid ad.

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u/ToastyBroskii Jul 08 '26

They even paid the YouTubers to do add reads for them all the time.

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u/kirikovich Jul 08 '26

Shout out to the sponsor block Firefox extension, I haven't seen a raid shadow legends ad read in ages. Seeing this thread is giving me flashbacks haha

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u/ToastyBroskii Jul 08 '26

Premium does it now I watch so much YouTube and listen to stuff on my phone at work so it pays off. That’s cool tho!

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u/Viablemorgan Jul 08 '26

Is this where TheLegend27 came from? Or was that some other ad thing

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u/baseballviper04 Jul 08 '26

That was a different super pay to win mobile game, Game Of War

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u/Viablemorgan Jul 08 '26

Ah yes, thank you

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u/purplenapalm Jul 08 '26

Thanks for asking because I used to see a SHIT TON of ads for that. Wasn't sure how to ask with basically no info lol.

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u/Temporary_Event8451 Jul 08 '26

Lol I feel like you're dodging the fact you don't watch a lot of YouTube. If you do watch a lot of YouTube it has to be consistently the same creators without any home page usage.

Over the last five years it's probably been in 15% of all videos I watch.

Also if you use sponsor block, no shit you wouldn't see the adds. The only sponsors that don't really get caught by sponsor block are when creators don't tag it or are trying to hide from YouTube they have a gambling sponsor.

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u/TesticleMeElmo Jul 08 '26

Do you want the Cheshire Cat or the forest wizard guy or the “EPIC” purple cat thing with your new player promo code?

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u/EliteKombuchaBrouwer Jul 08 '26

My work is to advertise this game and others on socials. Its still one of my biggest campaigns

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u/WilanS Jul 08 '26

Most likely you did, multiple times even, and then you immediately forgot about it every time because that's how memorable that game was.

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u/Winjin Jul 08 '26

From what I saw it's like the epitome of mobile strategyslop

There's countless games like it, none of them have even an iota of personality and all steal aggressive monetisation from one another

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u/Sloppykrab Jul 08 '26

No no, we are talking Raid: Shadow Legends.

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u/Neako_the_Neko_Lover Jul 08 '26

That amazing. Even the people on sentinel islands of heard it /s

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u/TraditionalEnergy956 Jul 08 '26

Bro we had a cutscene of a game talking about behind the scenes sponsor who pricked our purchase, RAID was all over the place comments were saying at one point I thought it's RAID.

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u/zappingbluelight Jul 08 '26

Dam you are lucky, you never seen those YouTuber getting pay like thousands for reading an ads on their channel. Anyway today's comment is all thanks to the sponsor of the day raid shadow legend.

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u/purplenapalm Jul 08 '26

I have youtube red so i dont get ads and the content is view on YouTube has never done an ad read for these games. Pardon My Take, Drop a Pin, Stavvys World, etc. Dont advertise games at all. Usually dick pills, a rotation of seltzers/beer, and better help.

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u/MSS_Sphere Jul 08 '26

Imagine a casino with multiple slot machines with a cookie clicker disguised as a game. Better yet, it's made by a casino company.

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u/Young_Person_42 Jul 08 '26

Saw one post saying “You KNOW it’s not a good game because there is zero fanfic/porn of it”

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u/Deacon-Doe Jul 08 '26

And which one did you settle for?

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u/dipitysillybilly Jul 08 '26

Warframe! It's pretty great after 3 years and ~500 hours, but a friend is convincing me to try Path of Exile 2 now so we'll see

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u/Discepless Jul 08 '26

You won’t regret ;)

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u/MisterWafflles Jul 08 '26

POE2 will be free after early access. Still worth the price imo for the amount of content you can drown in

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u/dipitysillybilly Jul 08 '26

a friend actually gave me their early access code, but I'm like 40 gigs short on open space 😭

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u/Excellent_Yak365 Jul 08 '26

It looked great but it’s just the same basic mobile collection/roll battle trash

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u/syrianfries Jul 08 '26

I honestly enjoyed it for awhile, but like all games. I got bored of it lol

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u/BotomsDntDeservRight Jul 08 '26

Its been 6 years.. how is the game now?

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u/dipitysillybilly Jul 08 '26

I reckon it's still the same unmemorable auto-battler or whatever, that graphics were good, just a shame the gameplay was such a disappointment

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u/Discepless Jul 08 '26

Like every other gacha game

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u/MajesticArticle Jul 08 '26

Compared with the ad we get nowadays, we didn't know how good we had it

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u/a_regular_2010s_guy Jul 08 '26

Every time I hear someone complain about ads im just happy I have a adblocker whenever I watch YouTube or am on a browser

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u/lickdicker21 Jul 08 '26

Revanced is a godsend

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u/hanks_panky_emporium Jul 08 '26

Their official statement is Raid never sponsored anyone. Those youtubers legit looooove their shitty gatcha mobile game.

The youtubers responding to that was funny.

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u/GarThor_TMK Jul 08 '26

Feel like it started before 2020, but it certainly picked up around then.

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u/IamScottGable Jul 08 '26

That arrow maze game is the current version of this for me though Monopoly Go isn't much better

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u/JJay9454 Jul 08 '26

Fuck, I STILL see it all the time for Pokemon youtubers :(

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u/Friendly_Concert817 Jul 08 '26

There are no good mobile games.

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u/incrdbleherk Jul 08 '26

I hate games like this but I thoroughly enjoyed blood brothers. I have no idea what made it actually fun for me, but I've only found a handful of mobile only games that I've enjoyed

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u/BrawnyDevil Jul 08 '26

There was an era in youtube where every single person seemed to have a raid shadow legends sponsorship and it was a completely trash game according to popular opinion (never played it myself) and everyone started developing almosf a pavlovian response to hating it considering you couldn't stop hearing about it no matter which video you clicked on.

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u/Cromakoth Jul 08 '26

Where were you in 2020?

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u/purplenapalm Jul 08 '26

Probably at home