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As if it wasn't bad enough to be pushed annoying alerts by your own phone's maker, some of them can't be turned off by holding down on the notification tray — Samsung makes you find each of the toggles in its apps that turn off notification ads. Here's how to find them.
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- Open Samsung Pay on your phone
- Open the side menu and tap 'Settings'
- Under 'General', switch 'Marketing and promotions' to off.
Bixby
- Open Bixby on your phone
- Tap the menu button at the top right, and select 'Settings'
- Under 'General,' switch 'Marketing notifications' to off.
Samsung Push Service
Another culprit is called Samsung Push Service, but luckily that can be turned off in the usual manner:
- Open 'Settings' and then 'Apps'
- Search for 'Samsung Push Service'
- Tap 'Notifications'
- Toggle 'Marketing' off.
When setting up your Samsung device, there may also be a toggle for turning off advertisements across the OS. In Europe, turning this off seems to stop any ads from ever showing (potentially in order to be GDPR compliant). In other regions, your mileage may vary.
Notification ads from a web browser
If you get a notification ad from a web browser, it's probably not the browser itself sending those — it's a website you granted notification access to at some point. You may have done it accidentally, or you may have only noticed when the site started sending more and more alerts. Whatever the reason may be, you can easily cut off notifications from specific sites.
Google Chrome
If you see an unwanted notification from Chrome, tap 'Site settings,' and then 'Notifications.' From there, you'll be able to turn off the notification channel for the site that's sending the alert.
Alternatively, you can long-press the notification and then tap 'Turn off notifications' in the bottom left. You'll be able to toggle off the site's notification channel on the next screen (see below).
There, you'll see every website that has ever sent notifications to your phone. To block alerts from a site, select it from the list and tap 'Notifications.'
Samsung Internet Browser
Samsung's web browser handles notifications almost exactly like Chrome. When a site sends you an alert, you can tap the 'Site Settings' button and you'll be taken directly to the site settings page for all sites. The one that's sent you the notification will be in the Allowed list, and from there you can toggle it off.
You can get to this same menu via the app's settings — just head to Settings > Sites and downloads > Notifications > tap the three-dot menu ⋮ > Allow or block sites.
Firefox
Firefox doesn't support Android notification channels, and it doesn't have a general list of all sites you have granted notification permissions to. As a result, blocking notifications from a specific site is done a little differently since there is no 'Site settings' button.
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