Image credit – Bharath Kundapura
We understand that when a company, such as Google, offers its services and products for free, that it means that they need to make money through different means, and that means usually involves ads. But what if you paid full price for a particular product and they still showed you ads anyway, wouldn’t that be kind of irritating?
Unfortunately that’s what’s happening with OnePlus because in a post on Reddit, it seems that the company is pushing ads via notifications to its users. As you can see in the screenshot above courtesy of Bharath Kundapura on Twitter, it shows that OnePlus users are receiving ads for the OnePlus 5 on their existing OnePlus devices.
Now OnePlus is not the first company to introduce ads to its devices. As Android Police notes, in the past companies such as Samsung and HTC have been found equally guilty of such practices. That being said, the post on Reddit suggests that this seems to be found in the Open Beta 9 of the phone’s software, and given that the post was made a month ago, things could have changed since then.
Alternatively if nothing’s changed, the post on Reddit also provides users with instructions on what they can do to block these notifications from showing up on their devices, so check it out if you are receiving these ads as well and you want it to stop.
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